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 1John Murray, 1828 |
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... certainly , much pleased with it . It has more talent and interest as a story than most which have lately proceeded from the same quarter . Lewis the Xlth is powerfully drawn , though , notwithstanding the superiority of his talents ...
... certainly , much pleased with it . It has more talent and interest as a story than most which have lately proceeded from the same quarter . Lewis the Xlth is powerfully drawn , though , notwithstanding the superiority of his talents ...
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... certainly not for all that followed . The wind was high during the night , and the swell more than commensurate ; and our furniture , though we had secured it with unusual care , seemed alive . The moon , during the latter part of the ...
... certainly not for all that followed . The wind was high during the night , and the swell more than commensurate ; and our furniture , though we had secured it with unusual care , seemed alive . The moon , during the latter part of the ...
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... Certainly there was no appearance or probability of any larger fish being in pursuit of even one hundredth part of those which we saw , nor were there any birds to endanger their flight ; and those writers who describe the life of these ...
... Certainly there was no appearance or probability of any larger fish being in pursuit of even one hundredth part of those which we saw , nor were there any birds to endanger their flight ; and those writers who describe the life of these ...
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... certainly am not idle , though , alas ! I cannot say much of my own proficiency . On Sunday 31st , we had again prayers and a sermon , though the weather was too much unsettled to admit of the men sitting down , and consequently the ...
... certainly am not idle , though , alas ! I cannot say much of my own proficiency . On Sunday 31st , we had again prayers and a sermon , though the weather was too much unsettled to admit of the men sitting down , and consequently the ...
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... certainly a handsome race ; the fruits were shaddocks , plantains , and coco- nuts , none good of their kind , as we were told ; the shaddock resembles a melon externally , but is in fact a vast orange , with a rind of two inches thick ...
... certainly a handsome race ; the fruits were shaddocks , plantains , and coco- nuts , none good of their kind , as we were told ; the shaddock resembles a melon externally , but is in fact a vast orange , with a rind of two inches thick ...
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