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 : in Three Volumes, Volume 3Murray, 1828 - 525 pages |
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... intercourse . In the evening I drove out with Mr. and Miss Williams to see the cantonment and the Church . The former reminded me of one of the villages near London , having a number of small brick houses 6 CANTONMENT AND CHURCH .
... intercourse . In the evening I drove out with Mr. and Miss Williams to see the cantonment and the Church . The former reminded me of one of the villages near London , having a number of small brick houses 6 CANTONMENT AND CHURCH .
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... villages , which were numerous , were all more in the European than the Indian style ; and , to complete the likeness , had large stacks of hay in their neighbourhood piled up and thatched like those in England . The custom of keeping ...
... villages , which were numerous , were all more in the European than the Indian style ; and , to complete the likeness , had large stacks of hay in their neighbourhood piled up and thatched like those in England . The custom of keeping ...
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... village called Wasnud . 66 Nothing could be more picturesque than this passage of the Granicus . " The moon was suffi- ciently bright to shew the wild and woodland cha- racter of the landscape , and the brightness and ripple of the ...
... village called Wasnud . 66 Nothing could be more picturesque than this passage of the Granicus . " The moon was suffi- ciently bright to shew the wild and woodland cha- racter of the landscape , and the brightness and ripple of the ...
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... village with a large tank not quite dry . In our way we were met by twenty of the chuprassees , or , to use the language of the coun- try , the Sepoys , of the Collector Mr. Williamson , all of the Kholee caste , rather short but broad ...
... village with a large tank not quite dry . In our way we were met by twenty of the chuprassees , or , to use the language of the coun- try , the Sepoys , of the Collector Mr. Williamson , all of the Kholee caste , rather short but broad ...
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... villages and districts , which had received him , from being among the worst , were now among the best and most orderly in the provinces . Nor was this all , insomuch as he was said to have destroyed the yoke of caste , -to have ...
... villages and districts , which had received him , from being among the worst , were now among the best and most orderly in the provinces . Nor was this all , insomuch as he was said to have destroyed the yoke of caste , -to have ...
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