Calcutta Review, Volume 9University of Calcutta, 1848 |
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... and the buffalo herd . We begin at once with the staple cultivation of the banks of the lower Ganges . The principal object to which the labours of the Bengal Ryot are directed , is , as all THE PLAINS OF THE LOWER GANGES . 3 စာ.
... and the buffalo herd . We begin at once with the staple cultivation of the banks of the lower Ganges . The principal object to which the labours of the Bengal Ryot are directed , is , as all THE PLAINS OF THE LOWER GANGES . 3 စာ.
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... banks , with a few pools of water be- tween them for the remaining months of the year . We have everything , in short , save the clear pebbly streams which are sometimes to be found at the foot of the snowy range to remind us of the ...
... banks , with a few pools of water be- tween them for the remaining months of the year . We have everything , in short , save the clear pebbly streams which are sometimes to be found at the foot of the snowy range to remind us of the ...
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... banks of the Ganges . Those who have seen the broad ocean leaning against the land , or tossing in impotence against those mighty barriers which the patient Dutchman has erected , may be tempted to speculate for a moment , whether if ...
... banks of the Ganges . Those who have seen the broad ocean leaning against the land , or tossing in impotence against those mighty barriers which the patient Dutchman has erected , may be tempted to speculate for a moment , whether if ...
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... such riches and such debasement mark the population on the banks of the Lower Ganges . We now turn to a different subject , the intercourse over these vast and fruitful plains . It is allowed that a 14 THE PLAINS OF THE LOWER GANGES .
... such riches and such debasement mark the population on the banks of the Lower Ganges . We now turn to a different subject , the intercourse over these vast and fruitful plains . It is allowed that a 14 THE PLAINS OF THE LOWER GANGES .
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... banks of the great Ganges , whose fertilizing and destructive powers , we have been endeavouring to describe , that the most ribald writer of a sceptical age placed the genuine abode of moral purity and truth . Nothing in Europe , in ...
... banks of the great Ganges , whose fertilizing and destructive powers , we have been endeavouring to describe , that the most ribald writer of a sceptical age placed the genuine abode of moral purity and truth . Nothing in Europe , in ...
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