Narrative of a Journey Through the Upper Provinces of India from Calcutta to Bombay, 1824-1825: With Notes Upon Ceylon, [and] an Account of a Journey to Madras and the Southern Provinces, 1826, and Letters Written in India, Volume 1B.R. Publishing Corporation, 1985 |
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... river , and storms are frequent and violent . The river is now unusually high , and the Brahmins have prophesied that it will rise fourteen cubits higher , and drown all Calcutta ; they might as well have said all Bengal , since the ...
... river , and storms are frequent and violent . The river is now unusually high , and the Brahmins have prophesied that it will rise fourteen cubits higher , and drown all Calcutta ; they might as well have said all Bengal , since the ...
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... river is so much wider , is not at all unlike some parts of Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire on the Thames . There are fewer pagodas to be seen , and none so handsome as those we have passed . There is , however , a rather more abundant ...
... river is so much wider , is not at all unlike some parts of Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire on the Thames . There are fewer pagodas to be seen , and none so handsome as those we have passed . There is , however , a rather more abundant ...
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... River - Brahminy Bulls - Titybania - Ornamented Boats - Strong cur- rent - Otters - Avalanches - Pown - Khyzr - Elephants bathing . This JUNE 19. - We again proceeded , still for the most part in a northerly or north - westerly ...
... River - Brahminy Bulls - Titybania - Ornamented Boats - Strong cur- rent - Otters - Avalanches - Pown - Khyzr - Elephants bathing . This JUNE 19. - We again proceeded , still for the most part in a northerly or north - westerly ...
Contents
FURREEDPOOR TO BOG LIPOOR | xv |
CHAPTER I | lxix |
CHAPTER II | 26 |
Copyright | |
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