Narrative of a Journey Through the Upper Provinces of India: From Calcutta to Bombay, 1824-1825, (with Notes Upon Ceylon,) an Account of a Journey to Madras and the Southern Provinces, 1826, and Letters Written in IndiaMurray, 1828 - 515 pages |
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Page viii
... Government in Calcutta , to whom , espe- cially to Mr. Lushington , the Secretary for the Ecclesiastical department , he always con- sidered himself as under much obligation : " The Members of Government have done every thing for me ...
... Government in Calcutta , to whom , espe- cially to Mr. Lushington , the Secretary for the Ecclesiastical department , he always con- sidered himself as under much obligation : " The Members of Government have done every thing for me ...
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... Government House - Native House- hold ....... CHAPTER II . CALCUTTA . Description of Calcutta - Cathedral - Environs - Quay- Child - murder - Barrackpoor - Menagerie - Female Or- phan Asylum - Consecration of Churches - Nâch - Free ...
... Government House - Native House- hold ....... CHAPTER II . CALCUTTA . Description of Calcutta - Cathedral - Environs - Quay- Child - murder - Barrackpoor - Menagerie - Female Or- phan Asylum - Consecration of Churches - Nâch - Free ...
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... , with two masts , a bowsprit , and rigged like a schooner without topsails . The master and crew of this last were 4 NATIVES . taller and finer men than those whom B 2 cutta-Arrival-Old Government House-Native House- hold.
... , with two masts , a bowsprit , and rigged like a schooner without topsails . The master and crew of this last were 4 NATIVES . taller and finer men than those whom B 2 cutta-Arrival-Old Government House-Native House- hold.
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... Government - house for our temporary residence . The fort stands consider- ably to the south of Calcutta and west of Chow- ringhee , having the Hooghly on its west side . The degree of light which now remained rendered all its details ...
... Government - house for our temporary residence . The fort stands consider- ably to the south of Calcutta and west of Chow- ringhee , having the Hooghly on its west side . The degree of light which now remained rendered all its details ...
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... Government- house , and many handsome private dwellings , - the whole so like some parts of Petersburgh , that it was hardly possible for me to fancy myself any where else . No native dwellings are visible from this quarter , except one ...
... Government- house , and many handsome private dwellings , - the whole so like some parts of Petersburgh , that it was hardly possible for me to fancy myself any where else . No native dwellings are visible from this quarter , except one ...
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