Calcutta Review, Volume 32University of Calcutta, 1859 |
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... ground being disen- gaged . All is occupied by a luxuriant growth of Soondree trees , beautiful in form and foliage ... grounds for supposing that that 4 THE GANGETIC DELTA .
... ground being disen- gaged . All is occupied by a luxuriant growth of Soondree trees , beautiful in form and foliage ... grounds for supposing that that 4 THE GANGETIC DELTA .
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eannot see or find any grounds for supposing that that portion of the Soonderbuns , lying between Saugor Island on the West , and the Horinghatta river on the East , and extending from the sea to Issureepoor on the Juboonah which falls ...
eannot see or find any grounds for supposing that that portion of the Soonderbuns , lying between Saugor Island on the West , and the Horinghatta river on the East , and extending from the sea to Issureepoor on the Juboonah which falls ...
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... ground . Their numbers may be imagined when we state , that in a small tank only thirty yards across , about forty trees were ex- humed , ten feet below the surface of the country , their timber undecayed , showing that no very great ...
... ground . Their numbers may be imagined when we state , that in a small tank only thirty yards across , about forty trees were ex- humed , ten feet below the surface of the country , their timber undecayed , showing that no very great ...
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... ground without breaking . It is computed that 20,000 ships , barks , sloops , boats , canoes , & c . , have been cast away ; of nine English ships then in the Ganges , eight were lost , and most of the crews drowned . Barks of 60 tons ...
... ground without breaking . It is computed that 20,000 ships , barks , sloops , boats , canoes , & c . , have been cast away ; of nine English ships then in the Ganges , eight were lost , and most of the crews drowned . Barks of 60 tons ...
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... ground sunk down , and 200 people , with all their cattle , were lost . It is said that sixty square miles of the Chittagong coast suddenly and permanently subsided during this earthquake , and that Ces - lung - Toom , one of the Mug ...
... ground sunk down , and 200 people , with all their cattle , were lost . It is said that sixty square miles of the Chittagong coast suddenly and permanently subsided during this earthquake , and that Ces - lung - Toom , one of the Mug ...
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