The Travels of a Hindoo to Various Parts of Bengal and Upper India, Volume 1N. Trübner, 1869 |
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Page 34
... soil . To Pundit Eswara Chundra Bidyasagur , should be conceded the credit of having revived a measure which had gone into desuetude , of making a dead letter take a fresh effect , of giving to it a political significance through the ...
... soil . To Pundit Eswara Chundra Bidyasagur , should be conceded the credit of having revived a measure which had gone into desuetude , of making a dead letter take a fresh effect , of giving to it a political significance through the ...
Page 56
... soil . September 8th . - Left this morning for Kenduli . Passed through Soorool , where we saw the deserted and desolate premises used for the silk filature of the East India Company . Then our path lay through a suc- cession of paddy ...
... soil . September 8th . - Left this morning for Kenduli . Passed through Soorool , where we saw the deserted and desolate premises used for the silk filature of the East India Company . Then our path lay through a suc- cession of paddy ...
Page 62
... soil enables to dispense with all metalling of the roads . September 10th . - Soory is a modern town , with many brick buildings , and a principal street in the middle . The ancient capital of the province was Naghore , to which there ...
... soil enables to dispense with all metalling of the roads . September 10th . - Soory is a modern town , with many brick buildings , and a principal street in the middle . The ancient capital of the province was Naghore , to which there ...
Page 64
... soil as its climate . This is the Raur Proper , the inhabitants of which boast of a purer de- scent , and look down with scorn upon the people on the other side of the Bhagiruttee . Nothing afforded us so great a pleasure as to pass ...
... soil as its climate . This is the Raur Proper , the inhabitants of which boast of a purer de- scent , and look down with scorn upon the people on the other side of the Bhagiruttee . Nothing afforded us so great a pleasure as to pass ...
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... soil of these tracts is the best adapted for mulberry . It cannot be ascertained now whether this plant is indigenous , or was introduced like tea at a remote period from China . Bengal grows silk , but Benares makes the richest ...
... soil of these tracts is the best adapted for mulberry . It cannot be ascertained now whether this plant is indigenous , or was introduced like tea at a remote period from China . Bengal grows silk , but Benares makes the richest ...
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