The Travels of a Hindoo to Various Parts of Bengal and Upper India, Volume 1N. Trübner, 1869 |
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Page 51
... trees , that was eight hun- dred yards long and three hundred broad , all the trees have died or been swept away by the river , excepting one , under which one of the Nabob's generals who fell in the battle is buried . ' As long ago as ...
... trees , that was eight hun- dred yards long and three hundred broad , all the trees have died or been swept away by the river , excepting one , under which one of the Nabob's generals who fell in the battle is buried . ' As long ago as ...
Page 205
... trees will have to shake off their leaves , and the naked rocks will then be seen as huge skeletons of an antediluvian world . The luxuriant vegetation is all wild . Not a single familiar tree can the eye make out . It may be that , as ...
... trees will have to shake off their leaves , and the naked rocks will then be seen as huge skeletons of an antediluvian world . The luxuriant vegetation is all wild . Not a single familiar tree can the eye make out . It may be that , as ...
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... tree - which is sacred to them and not to the Brahmins - greatly favours our supposition . Indeed , trees have from an early antiquity been held sacred in eastern systems of theology . The Hebrews had their Tree of Life , the ...
... tree - which is sacred to them and not to the Brahmins - greatly favours our supposition . Indeed , trees have from an early antiquity been held sacred in eastern systems of theology . The Hebrews had their Tree of Life , the ...
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