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 India, Volume 2Carey, Lea and Carey, 1828 |
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... miles from Jyepoor . The Ma - jee seemed fully bent on carrying matters to the utmost length ; she invited over her favourite , then living at Agra , and treated with much contempt the proposal made her by the Resident , that she should ...
... miles from Jyepoor . The Ma - jee seemed fully bent on carrying matters to the utmost length ; she invited over her favourite , then living at Agra , and treated with much contempt the proposal made her by the Resident , that she should ...
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... , which is only eight miles , this afternoon , but was prevented by seven of my bearers taking fright at the reports they heard of the country to the south- west , and running off this morning . Seven more 16 PRIVATE EXECUTION .
... , which is only eight miles , this afternoon , but was prevented by seven of my bearers taking fright at the reports they heard of the country to the south- west , and running off this morning . Seven more 16 PRIVATE EXECUTION .
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... miles to Buggeroo , which I found rather a pretty place surrounded with groves of the tara- palm , a rare sight in these inhospitable plains . Yet a great part of the soil which I went over in the course D 2 BUGGEROO . 19.
... miles to Buggeroo , which I found rather a pretty place surrounded with groves of the tara- palm , a rare sight in these inhospitable plains . Yet a great part of the soil which I went over in the course D 2 BUGGEROO . 19.
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... miles , a large piece of water which I supposed to be a part of the celebrated salt lake of Sambur , which supplies all northern and western Hindostan with that necessary . I could not posi- tively ascertain the fact , however , at the ...
... miles , a large piece of water which I supposed to be a part of the celebrated salt lake of Sambur , which supplies all northern and western Hindostan with that necessary . I could not posi- tively ascertain the fact , however , at the ...
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... miles , and as we had only come a very short stage this day , and as time was precious with me , I made arrangements for proceeding to Kish- enghur on the Sunday . Had I been able to obtain good in- formation of the road , I should have ...
... miles , and as we had only come a very short stage this day , and as time was precious with me , I made arrangements for proceeding to Kish- enghur on the Sunday . Had I been able to obtain good in- formation of the road , I should have ...
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