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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... stream of smooth water , which carried us considerably to the east . I happened to go on deck during this watch , and was much pleased and interested with the sight . It was exactly like a river , about half a mile broad , smooth ...
... stream of smooth water , which carried us considerably to the east . I happened to go on deck during this watch , and was much pleased and interested with the sight . It was exactly like a river , about half a mile broad , smooth ...
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... stream , at a fathom or two underneath , and against which nothing but a very powerful gale could contend . Our hope is , therefore , in the flood- tide , and in the smallness of the distance which we have yet to pass before we get into ...
... stream , at a fathom or two underneath , and against which nothing but a very powerful gale could contend . Our hope is , therefore , in the flood- tide , and in the smallness of the distance which we have yet to pass before we get into ...
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... stream of coffee - coloured water which surrounds us , sufficiently indicates by its tint the inundations which have supplied it . One of the first specimens of the manners of the country which has fallen under our notice , has been a ...
... stream of coffee - coloured water which surrounds us , sufficiently indicates by its tint the inundations which have supplied it . One of the first specimens of the manners of the country which has fallen under our notice , has been a ...
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... stream , remind me strongly at this moment of the Don , between Tcherkask and Asof , —and Kedgeree , a village on the opposite side of the river from Saugor , if it had but a church , would not be unlike Oxai , the residence of the ...
... stream , remind me strongly at this moment of the Don , between Tcherkask and Asof , —and Kedgeree , a village on the opposite side of the river from Saugor , if it had but a church , would not be unlike Oxai , the residence of the ...
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... stream is here intense , and its struggle with the spring - tide raises waves of a dark - coloured water , which put me in mind of the river where Dante found the spirit of Filippo Argenti . I looked with much interest on the first coco ...
... stream is here intense , and its struggle with the spring - tide raises waves of a dark - coloured water , which put me in mind of the river where Dante found the spirit of Filippo Argenti . I looked with much interest on the first coco ...
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