A Winter in IndiaCassell, Petter, Galpin & Company, 1882 - 196 pages Tour 1881-1882 Bombay, Delhi, Lahore, Agra, Lucknow, Benares, Calcutta, Madras, Poona & trip to Darjeeling; focus on Afghan policy, Indian economy, Christian education. |
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Page 3
... never saw the glorious scenery of the Tyrol , the noble entrance to the Inn valley , its startling peaks , gorges , and pre- cipices , to such advantage . Then there was a bright moon to lighten the valley of the Adige , and enable us ...
... never saw the glorious scenery of the Tyrol , the noble entrance to the Inn valley , its startling peaks , gorges , and pre- cipices , to such advantage . Then there was a bright moon to lighten the valley of the Adige , and enable us ...
Page 4
... never seen anything so beautiful of their kind as the varied views of Venice from the sea . By nightfall we were off Ancona , burning blue lights on the port bow ; and so calm was the sometimes stormy gulf that by I a.m. on Sunday we ...
... never seen anything so beautiful of their kind as the varied views of Venice from the sea . By nightfall we were off Ancona , burning blue lights on the port bow ; and so calm was the sometimes stormy gulf that by I a.m. on Sunday we ...
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... never saw a more squalid , filthy , rickety - looking place than the ancient Brundusium ; but it has a good harbour , and probably at some future time it will be more inviting to the traveller . At 2 o'clock on Monday morning the train ...
... never saw a more squalid , filthy , rickety - looking place than the ancient Brundusium ; but it has a good harbour , and probably at some future time it will be more inviting to the traveller . At 2 o'clock on Monday morning the train ...
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... never be for- gotten . Then in the evening some of us were entertained to dinner in the Yacht Club . It is a fine airy erection on the Apollo Bunder , now called the Wellington pier , so well venti- lated that punkahs are not required ...
... never be for- gotten . Then in the evening some of us were entertained to dinner in the Yacht Club . It is a fine airy erection on the Apollo Bunder , now called the Wellington pier , so well venti- lated that punkahs are not required ...
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... never be for- gotten . Then in the evening some of us were entertained to dinner in the Yacht Club . It is a fine airy erection on the Apollo Bunder , now called the Wellington pier , so well venti- lated that punkahs are not required ...
... never be for- gotten . Then in the evening some of us were entertained to dinner in the Yacht Club . It is a fine airy erection on the Apollo Bunder , now called the Wellington pier , so well venti- lated that punkahs are not required ...
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200 Original 400 Illustrations Agra anchor beautiful Benares Bombay British bungalow Calcutta carriages Cassell's History Cawnpore Cheap Edition Christianity Church classes cloth gilt Co.'s Volumes Continued Cookery Coonoor crowded Crown 8vo Cumballa Cumballa Hill Darjeeling Delhi Demy 4to Dictionary drove English European Extra crown 4to F. E. HULME F. J. FURNIVALL Fac-simile Coloured Plates feet flowers Four Vols Galpin & Co.'s gardens gilt edges Government House half-morocco harbour Hindoo Hindostan Hotel India inhabitants interest Lahore land library binding lofty London Lord Lord Ripon Ludgate Hill Madras Major Baring Malabar Hill ment miles morning morocco mosque mountains native nearly night o'clock officers Original Illustrations passed peaks Petter picturesque plain plantations Poona population railway remarkable revenue river ROBERT BROWN ship Siliguri station steamers Suez Sunday Sunday Musings temples Three Vols tion town travelled trees Wood Engravings
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Page 194 - It has been calculated that the average income per head of population in India is not more than Rs. 27 a year; and though I am not prepared to pledge myself to the absolute accuracy of a calculation of this sort, it is sufficiently accurate to justify the conclusion that the taxpaying community is exceedingly poor. To derive any very large increase of revenue from so poor a population as this is obviously impossible, and, if it were possible, would be unjustifiable.