A System of Geography, Popular and Scientific: Or A Physical, Political, and Statistical Account of the World and Its Various Divisions, Volume 4A. Fullarton & Company, 1832 |
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Page 320 - into the countries and parts of Asia and Africa, and into and from all the islands, ports, towns, and places of Asia, Africa, and America, or any of them, beyond the cape of Bona Esperanza, or the straits of Magellan, where any traffic may be used, and to and from every of them.
Page 364 - were we to be driven out of India this day, nothing would remain to tell that it had been possessed, during the inglorious period of our dominion, by any thing better than the
Page 348 - Let her emaciate her body by living voluntarily on pure flowers, roots, and fruits ; but let her not, when her lord is deceased, even pronounce the name of another man. Let her continue till death, forgiving all injuries, performing harsh
Page 380 - intermixture of timber. On a standing roof of wood is laid a covering of fine earth, which shelters the building from the great quantity of snow that falls in the winter season. This fence communicates an equal warmth in winter as a refreshing coolness in the summer season, when the tops of
Page 350 - was ready to offer himself a sacrifice to the idol. He laid himself down in the road, before the tower as it was moving along, lying on his face, with his arms stretched forwards. The multitude passed round him, leaving the space clear, and he
Page 408 - The number of temples is very great, mostly small, and stuck like shrines in the angles of the streets, and under the shadow of the lofty houses. Their forms, however, are not ungraceful ; and many of them are entirely covered over with beautiful and elaborate carvings of flowers, animals,
Page 408 - every conceivable deformity which chalk, cow-dung, disease, matted locks, distorted limbs, and disgusting and hideous attitudes of penance can show, literally line the principal streets on both sides. The number of blind persons is very great ; I was going to say, of lepers also, but I am not
Page 343 - who are sometimes met with in the country, are very little darker than they themselves are, their jest-books are full of taunts on the charcoal complexion of the ' Hubshee.' Much of this has probably arisen from their having been so long subjected to the Moguls, and other conquerors originally from more northern climates, and
Page 196 - in favour of its divine origin. In the spirit of enthusiasm or vanity, the prophet rests the truth of his mission on the merit of his book, audaciously challenges both men and angels to imitate the beauties of a single passage,
Page 429 - Any doubts regarding the said line of demarcation will be settled by commissioners appointed by the respective governments for that purpose, such commissioners from both powers to be of suitable and corresponding rank. Art. IV.—His Majesty the King of Ava cedes to the British government the conquered provinces of