The Travels of a Hindoo to Various Parts of Bengal and Upper India, Volume 2N. Trübner, 1869 |
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... feet , and enclosed by a high stone rampart with battlements and towers , five miles in cir- cuit . The whole extent of this space , in its present state , is one scene of desolation , strewed more or less with the ruins of broken ...
... feet , and enclosed by a high stone rampart with battlements and towers , five miles in cir- cuit . The whole extent of this space , in its present state , is one scene of desolation , strewed more or less with the ruins of broken ...
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... feet , carpets were spread on the road . That her purda- nashin honour might not suffer , kännäts or cloth - walls were raised on each side of the way . High towers of burnt bricks were also erected at each stage , to mark the places ...
... feet , carpets were spread on the road . That her purda- nashin honour might not suffer , kännäts or cloth - walls were raised on each side of the way . High towers of burnt bricks were also erected at each stage , to mark the places ...
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... feet in height , and the same in breadth . The span of the arch is forty feet broad , by sixty feet high . In Sleeman's opinion , the beholder is struck with the disproportion between the thing wanted and the thing provided . There ...
... feet in height , and the same in breadth . The span of the arch is forty feet broad , by sixty feet high . In Sleeman's opinion , the beholder is struck with the disproportion between the thing wanted and the thing provided . There ...
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... feet high , is perhaps the grandest in the world . It is however getting fast dilapidated - the annual rains sweeping down the hill are here loosening a slab and there dislodging another . On the right side of the entrance , is engraven ...
... feet high , is perhaps the grandest in the world . It is however getting fast dilapidated - the annual rains sweeping down the hill are here loosening a slab and there dislodging another . On the right side of the entrance , is engraven ...
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Bholanauth Chunder. " this is a tower , nearly fifty feet high , built , according to local report , of elephant's tusks , but actually of com- position , moulded and enamelled into a resemblance of those natural substances . ' It is ...
Bholanauth Chunder. " this is a tower , nearly fifty feet high , built , according to local report , of elephant's tusks , but actually of com- position , moulded and enamelled into a resemblance of those natural substances . ' It is ...
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