Memoir of a Map of Hindoostan: Or the Mogul Empire: with an Introduction, Illustrative of the Geography and Present Division of that Country: ... By James Rennell, ... To which is Added, an Appendix, Containing an Account of the Ganges and Burrampooter RiversM. Brown, 1788 - 295 pages |
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... mountains , on the north ; and the fea on the fouth . But . ftrictly speaking , the extent of Hindooftan is much more circum- scribed , than thefe limits convey an idea of : and the name ought to be applied only to that part of the ...
... mountains , on the north ; and the fea on the fouth . But . ftrictly speaking , the extent of Hindooftan is much more circum- scribed , than thefe limits convey an idea of : and the name ought to be applied only to that part of the ...
Page xxvii
... mountains at the head of the Indus , to its mouth , according to Eratofthenes , is 13,000 ftadia ; and from the said mountains , to the eastern fea , the extent is fomewhat lefs : but as a huge tract of land runs out 4,000 ftadia into ...
... mountains at the head of the Indus , to its mouth , according to Eratofthenes , is 13,000 ftadia ; and from the said mountains , to the eastern fea , the extent is fomewhat lefs : but as a huge tract of land runs out 4,000 ftadia into ...
Page xl
... mountains : fo that the remarkable circumftance of his failing down the Indus , in which he employed many months , is funk al- together . And yet , perhaps , few events of ancient times , reft on better foundations , than this part of ...
... mountains : fo that the remarkable circumftance of his failing down the Indus , in which he employed many months , is funk al- together . And yet , perhaps , few events of ancient times , reft on better foundations , than this part of ...
Page xlv
... mountains bordering on the Panjab country . His next expedition , being the fixth , was in 1011 ; when Tannafar , a more celebrated place of Hindoo worship , on the west of Delhi , experienced a like fate with Nagracut ; and the city of ...
... mountains bordering on the Panjab country . His next expedition , being the fixth , was in 1011 ; when Tannafar , a more celebrated place of Hindoo worship , on the west of Delhi , experienced a like fate with Nagracut ; and the city of ...
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... mountains and fastnesses , too strong for him . His twelfth expedition , in 1024 , was fatal to the celebrated temple of Sumnaut , in the peninsula of Guzerat , adjoining to the town of Puttan , on the fea coaft ; and not far from the ...
... mountains and fastnesses , too strong for him . His twelfth expedition , in 1024 , was fatal to the celebrated temple of Sumnaut , in the peninsula of Guzerat , adjoining to the town of Puttan , on the fea coaft ; and not far from the ...
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Page 269 - Burrampaoter, are overflowed, and form an inundation of more than a hundred miles in width ; nothing appearing but villages and trees, excepting very rarely the top of an elevated fpot; (the artificial mound of fome deferted village) appearing like an ifland.
Page 265 - The bay, so corroded, in time becomes large enough to give a new direction to the body of the canal: and the matter excavated from the bay is...
Page 277 - I mean, is, that during the laft 60 miles before its junction with the Ganges, it forms a ftream which is regularly from four to five miles wide, and but for its frefhnefs might pafs for an arm of the fea.
Page 276 - Laffa (in which is the residence of did grand Lama) and then deviating from an eaft to a fouth-eaft courfe, it approaches within 220 miles of Yunan, the wefternmoft province of China. Here it appears, as if Undetermined whether to attempt a...
Page 268 - As a ftrong preemptive proof of the wandering of the Ganges from the one fide of the Delta to the other, I muft obferve, that there is no appearance of virgin earth between the Tiperah hills on the eaft, and the province of Burdwan on the weft; nor on the north till we arrive at Decca and Bauleah.
Page 273 - November, it gradually lessens from three inches to an inch and a half; and from November to the latter end of April, the decrease is only half an inch per day at a medium.
Page 277 - I have in my poflefilon a manufcript draught of the Ava river, to within 150 miles of the place where Du HALDE leaves the Nou Kian, in its courfe towards Ava ; together with very authentic information that this river (named Irabattey by the people of Ava) is navigable from the city of Ava into the province of Yunan in China*. The Burrampooter, during a courfe of 400 miles through Bengal, bears fo intimate a refemblance to the Ganges, except in one particular, .that one defcription may ferve for both.
Page 278 - Calcutta, it fometimes occafions an inftantaneous rife of five feet : and both here, and in every other part of its track, the boats, on its approach, immediately quit the more, and make for fafety to the middle of the river.
Page 257 - America, where the carrying places not only obftruft the progrefs of an army, but enable the adverfary to' determine his place and mode of attack with certainty. * In its courfe ' through the plains, it receives eleven rivers, fome of which are equal to the Rhine, and none fmaller than the Thames, befides as many of letter note.
Page 92 - Attock now stands : because, first, it appears to have been, in all ages, the pass on the Indus leading from the countries of Cabul and Candahar into India ; and this is strongly indicated by the circumstance of Acbar's building the fortress of Attock to command it.