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" ... higher regions are poured down in such profusion that the river-beds are unable to contain them. They accordingly overflow, and convert the ground into a species of swamp, which, acted on by the burning rays of a tropical sun, throws up an excessively... "
History of India - Page 14
by William C. Pearce - 1876 - 240 pages
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Historical and Descriptive Account of British India, from the Most ..., Volume 1

Hugh Murray - 1832 - 314 pages
...burning rays cf a tropical sun, throws up an excessively rank vegetation, whereby the earth is choked rather than covered. The soil is concealed beneath...foliage, while long grass and prickly shrubs shoot up so dense and so close as to form an almost impenetrable barrier. It is still more awfully guarded by the...
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History of British India: With Continuation Comprising the Afghan War, the ...

Hugh Murray - 1850 - 776 pages
...burning rays of a tropical sun, throws up an excessively rank vegetation, whereby the earth is choked rather than covered. The soil is concealed beneath...the pestilential vapours exhaling from those dark receives, which make it at certain seasons a region of death. CHAP. i. Hence the destruction which...
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History of British India. With continuation. Continued to 1854

1855 - 800 pages
...burning rays of a tropical sun, throws up an excessively rank vegetation, whereby the earth is choked rather than covered. The soil is concealed beneath...which make it at certain seasons a region of death. Hence the destruction which overtakes an army that encamps for any length of time near this valley,...
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History of British India: Continued to the Close of the Year 1854

Hugh Murray - 1859 - 752 pages
...burning rays of a tropical sun, throws up an excessively rank vegetation, whereby the earth is choked rather than covered. The soil is concealed beneath...which make it at certain seasons a region of death. Hence the destruction which overtakes an army that encamps for any length of time near this valley,...
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The Advanced Reader

1866 - 408 pages
...burning rays of a tropical sun, throws up an excessively rank vegetation, whereby the earth is choked, rather than covered. The soil is concealed beneath...which make it, at certain seasons, a region of death. Beneath these melancholy shades, too, the elephant, the tiger, and other wild animals, prowl unmolested...
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The Progressive English reading books, Volume 4

Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1866 - 408 pages
...burning rays of a tropical sun, throws up an excessively rank vegetation, whereby the earth is choked, rather than covered. The soil is concealed beneath...mass of dark and dismal foliage, while long grass arid prickly shrubs shoot up so densely and so close as to form an almost impenetrable barrier. It...
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The Royal Readers, Issue 5

Thomas Nelson Publishers - 1879 - 448 pages
...burning rays of a tropical sun, throws up an excessively rank vegetation, whereby the earth is choked rather than covered. The soil is concealed beneath...impenetrable barrier. It is still more awfully guarded by the pestilential2 vapours exhaling from those dark recesses, which make it, at certain seasons, a region...
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The geography and history of the British colonies

George Gill (schoolmaster.) - 1879 - 212 pages
...a tropical sun, throws up an excessively rank vegetation, whereby the earth is choked rather titan covered. " The soil is concealed beneath a mass of...which make it, at certain seasons, a region of death. Beneath these melancholy ehades, too, the elephant, the tiger, and other wild animals prowl, unmolested...
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The world at home, a new ser. of geographical readers. 6 standards. [With ...

Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1884 - 282 pages
...that the earth is choked rather than covered by it. 4. The soil is concealed beneath a mass of dark foliage, while long grass and prickly shrubs shoot...still more awfully guarded by the pestilential vapours which arise from it, and which make it at certain seasons a region of death. In these dark recesses...
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