Calcutta Review, Volume 9University of Calcutta, 1848 |
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... Natural History , 7 vols . 8vo . Cal- cutta , 1840-48 ib . ib . 5. Transactions of the Literary Societies of Madras and Bombay . ib . ib . ib . 6. Summary of the Geology of Southern India , by Capt . Newbold , parts 1 , 2 and 3. London ...
... Natural History , 7 vols . 8vo . Cal- cutta , 1840-48 ib . ib . 5. Transactions of the Literary Societies of Madras and Bombay . ib . ib . ib . 6. Summary of the Geology of Southern India , by Capt . Newbold , parts 1 , 2 and 3. London ...
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... nature in the great continent of Asia , would equally apply to that smaller division of it , which forms our Indian empire , and to that yet smaller subdivision , known as the tract on both sides of the Lower Ganges , or the Plains of ...
... nature in the great continent of Asia , would equally apply to that smaller division of it , which forms our Indian empire , and to that yet smaller subdivision , known as the tract on both sides of the Lower Ganges , or the Plains of ...
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... nature's fertility and the productiveness of civili- zation arrest the regards of the philosophic historian , who at- tempts to read something of a nation's character from their climate and their soil . And yet Bengal proper well ...
... nature's fertility and the productiveness of civili- zation arrest the regards of the philosophic historian , who at- tempts to read something of a nation's character from their climate and their soil . And yet Bengal proper well ...
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... nature we doubt if any country exhibits a greater number of detached objects of beauty , or of more intensity in colouring . The painter , wander- ing over the plains , might fill his scrap book in a week with sketches not unworthy of a ...
... nature we doubt if any country exhibits a greater number of detached objects of beauty , or of more intensity in colouring . The painter , wander- ing over the plains , might fill his scrap book in a week with sketches not unworthy of a ...
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... natural , and the other artificial . The , former , which still lives in the great Malda jungle , the Rajmahal hills , the Terai , and in some of the Eastern districts , or at least on those vast churs formed by the Megna or the Podma ...
... natural , and the other artificial . The , former , which still lives in the great Malda jungle , the Rajmahal hills , the Terai , and in some of the Eastern districts , or at least on those vast churs formed by the Megna or the Podma ...
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