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PLACES OF INTEREST
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PAT
Pat (Kudal Peta, p. 4879), is a large garden village in the west
of Kudal, ten miles north of Vengurle, and eighteen miles north-west of Vadi. It has a fine natural lake bordered by betel-nut and palm groves, which is said, during the rains, to cover an area of about 83 acres. For many years its water has, during the cold season, been used to irrigate land in the neighbouring villages of Mhapan and Kochre. Seedlings are prepared in the lake before the rainy season and in the monsoon they are taken out and are sown in the fields. There is an embankment with sluice-gates on the north-east,
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