Calcutta Review, Volume 32University of Calcutta, 1859 |
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... known in the Cuttack forests , and all typical of a perennially humid atınosphere . " The soil of the Soonderbuns is composed superficially of a black vegetable mud , supporting a tangled mass of tropical ve- getation growing down to ...
... known in the Cuttack forests , and all typical of a perennially humid atınosphere . " The soil of the Soonderbuns is composed superficially of a black vegetable mud , supporting a tangled mass of tropical ve- getation growing down to ...
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... known active volcanoes and twenty- nine extinct ones . We know also that volcanic fire has fre- quently broken out from the bosom of the ocean opposite to Cheduba Island in Latitude 19 ° N .; and a few miles South of Pondicherry in 1757 ...
... known active volcanoes and twenty- nine extinct ones . We know also that volcanic fire has fre- quently broken out from the bosom of the ocean opposite to Cheduba Island in Latitude 19 ° N .; and a few miles South of Pondicherry in 1757 ...
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... known to pilots and others approaching the shores of India . At sixty miles from the Soonderbuns the ocean is free from any appearance of natant impurities , but nevertheless a cer- tain amount of alluvial matter is subsiding to the ...
... known to pilots and others approaching the shores of India . At sixty miles from the Soonderbuns the ocean is free from any appearance of natant impurities , but nevertheless a cer- tain amount of alluvial matter is subsiding to the ...
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... known as the Backergunge or Burrisal District , was swept by an inundation , succeeded imme- diately afterwards by an incursion of Portuguese and Mugh pirates . In June 1822 this same tract was again inundated , 10,000 inhabitants ...
... known as the Backergunge or Burrisal District , was swept by an inundation , succeeded imme- diately afterwards by an incursion of Portuguese and Mugh pirates . In June 1822 this same tract was again inundated , 10,000 inhabitants ...
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... known than those in the British channel , of which , no tolerable chart exists , even at this day ( 1787 ) . During the late war , an East India ship owed her safety to the know- ledge obtained from a chart of the mouths of the Ganges ...
... known than those in the British channel , of which , no tolerable chart exists , even at this day ( 1787 ) . During the late war , an East India ship owed her safety to the know- ledge obtained from a chart of the mouths of the Ganges ...
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