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 23
... 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 indistinguishable , and it was only when we began to wind ...
... 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 indistinguishable , and it was only when we began to wind ...
Page 29
... them both small and poor , while the dirty white dresses and bare limbs of their attendants , have , to an unaccustomed eye , an appearance of any thing but wealth and 30 ENVIRONS . luxury . Calcutta stands on an almost.
... them both small and poor , while the dirty white dresses and bare limbs of their attendants , have , to an unaccustomed eye , an appearance of any thing but wealth and 30 ENVIRONS . luxury . Calcutta stands on an almost.
Page 30
... stands on an almost perfect level of alluvial and marshy ground , which a cen- tury ago was covered with jungle and stagnant pools , and which still almost every where betrays its unsoundness by the cracks conspicuous in the best houses ...
... stands on an almost perfect level of alluvial and marshy ground , which a cen- tury ago was covered with jungle and stagnant pools , and which still almost every where betrays its unsoundness by the cracks conspicuous in the best houses ...
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... stands on the opposite bank , with its little spire , its flag - staff , and its neat white buildings , is at this distance a very pleasing object . The house itself of Barrackpoor is handsome , containing three fine sitting - rooms ...
... stands on the opposite bank , with its little spire , its flag - staff , and its neat white buildings , is at this distance a very pleasing object . The house itself of Barrackpoor is handsome , containing three fine sitting - rooms ...
Page 44
... stands , is said to be of some antiquity , at least for Bengal , where so many pow- erful agents of destruction are always at work , that no architecture can be durable , -and though ruins and buildings of apparently remote date are ex ...
... stands , is said to be of some antiquity , at least for Bengal , where so many pow- erful agents of destruction are always at work , that no architecture can be durable , -and though ruins and buildings of apparently remote date are ex ...
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