fairly begun." The series as a whole has been accepted as finally authoritative, supplanting its predecessors of similar aim, and almost--in the words of Theodore Roosevelt--founding a new school of naval historical writing. Other works by Mahan are a _Life of Admiral Farragut_ (1892); _The Interest of America in Sea Power_ (1897); _Lessons of the War with Spain_ (1899); _The Story of the War with South Africa_ and _The Problem of Asia_ (1900); _Types of Naval Officers drawn from the History of the British Navy_ (1901); _Retrospect and Prospect_, studies of international relations (1902). MAHANADI, or MAHANUDDY ("The Great River"), a river of India. It rises in 20° 10´ N., 82° E., 25 m. S. of Raipur town, in the wild mountains of Bastar in the Central Provinces. At first an insignificant stream, taking a northerly direction, it drains the eastern portion of the Chhattisgarh plain, then a little above Seorinarayan it receives the waters which its first great affluent, the Seonath, has collected from the western portion of the plain; thence flowing for some distance due E., its stream is augmented by the drainage of the hills of Uprora, Korba, and the ranges that separate Sambalpur from Chota Nagpur. At Padampur it turns towards the south, and struggling through masses of rock, flows past the town of Sambalpur to Sonpur. From Sonpur it pursues a tortuous course among ridges and rocky crags towards the range of the Eastern Ghats. This mountain line it pierces by a gorge about 40 m. in length, overlooked by forest-clad hills. Since the opening of the Bengal-Nagpur railway, the Mahanadi is little used for navigation. It pours down upon the Orissa delta at Naraj, about 7 m. west of Cuttack town; and after traversing Cuttack district from west to east, and throwing off numerous branches (the Katjori, Paika, Biropa, Chitartala, &c.) it falls into the Bay of Bengal at False Point by several channels.