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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Page 28
... Town Hall , the 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 ...
... Town Hall , the 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 ...
Page 312
... town , on a river for which the people of the town seem to have no other name than " Futwa kee Nuddee . " Futwa is famous for a very long and handsome old bridge , ( an object of some rarity in India ) and a college of Mussulman law and ...
... town , on a river for which the people of the town seem to have no other name than " Futwa kee Nuddee . " Futwa is famous for a very long and handsome old bridge , ( an object of some rarity in India ) and a college of Mussulman law and ...
Page 342
... town or city , and from the river very striking , though like all the Indian cities I have passed , its noblest buildings on approaching them turn out to be ruins . The river , though narrower than I have been lately accustomed to see ...
... town or city , and from the river very striking , though like all the Indian cities I have passed , its noblest buildings on approaching them turn out to be ruins . The river , though narrower than I have been lately accustomed to see ...
Contents
FURREEDPOOR TO BOG LIPOOR | xv |
CHAPTER I | lxix |
CHAPTER II | 26 |
Copyright | |
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