 | Edmund Burke - 1800 - 614 pages
...draw of any confiderable portion of the accumulating tide. In the Hoogly or Calcutta River, the Bert commences at Hoogly point (the place where the river...travelling from one to the other, although the diftance it near 70 miles. At Calcutta, it fometimes occafions an inftantaneous rife of fivie feet : and both... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1781 - 506 pages
...River, the bore commences at Hoogly Point (the place where the river firft contracts itfelf) and js perceptible above Hoogly Town; and fo quick is its...near 70 miles. At Calcutta, it fometimes occafions an inflantaneous rife of five feet : and both here, and in every other part of its tr'.ick, the boats,... | |
 | 1800 - 620 pages
...the river firft contrails itfelf), and is perceptible above Hoogly Town ; and fo quick isitsmotion, that it hardly employs four hours in travelling from one to the other, although the diftance it near 70 miles. At Calcutta, it fometimes occafions an inflantaneous rife of five feet : and both... | |
 | 1800 - 624 pages
...the river firft contrails itfelf), and is perceptible above Hoogly Town ; and fo quick isitsmotion, that it hardly employs four hours in travelling from one to the other, although the diftance it near 70 miles. At Calcutta, it fometimes occafions an inftantaneous rife of five feet : and both... | |
 | Joseph Huddart - 1801 - 686 pages
...10.27 8.42 8.57 9.19 8.12 7.27 7.24 XV. 3.00 1.30112.47 12.30 I2.0C ii. 16 9-30 9-45 10.7 9-0 8.15 8.12 the diftance is near 70 miles. At Calcutta it fometimes occafions an inftantaneous rife of 5 feet : and both here and in every other part of its track, the boats on its approach immediately... | |
 | William Milburn - 1825 - 646 pages
...(the place where the river first contracts itself), and is perceptible above Hughley Town ; and so quick is its motion, that it hardly employs four hours...in travelling from one to the other, although the distance is nearly 70 miles. At Calcutta it sometimes occasions an instantaneous rise of five feet... | |
 | Henry Thomas De La Beche - 1832 - 590 pages
...place where the river first contracts itself, and is perceptible above Hughly Town; and so quick 13 its motion, that it hardly employs four hours in travelling from one to the other, although the distance is near seventy miles. At Calcutta, it sometimes causes an instantaneous rise of five feet;... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1858 - 658 pages
...^^^21jg ^S^^^^w /3 • . \ Sriver first contracts itself, and is perceptible above Hoogly Town ; and so quick is its motion that it hardly employs four hours in travelling from one to the other, though the distance is nearly seventy miles. At Calcutta it sometimes occasions an instantaneous rise... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1867 - 746 pages
...voL ii. p. 166. London, t Phil. Trans. 1833, p. 204. 1845. { See Lyell's Travels in Jiorth Amethat it hardly employs four hours in travelling; from one to the other, though the distance is nearly seventy miles. At Calcutta it sometimes occasions an instantaneous rise... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1872 - 714 pages
...Point, the place where the river first contracts itself, and is perceptible above Hoogly Town ; and so quick is its motion, that it hardly employs four hours in travelling from one to the other, though the distance is nearly seventy miles. At Calcutta it sometimes occasions an instantaneous rise... | |
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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. 
