Nepal (about 2,500), an independent native State in North India, occupying a narrow mountainous territory along and including the southern slopes of the Himalayas, which separate it from Thibet; consists mainly of valleys and intervening mountain ridges, among which dwell various hill tribes, the dominant race being the hardy Goorkhas (q.v.).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Neo-Platonism * Nepenthe