 | 1783 - 736 pages
...refidence in Bengal, the outlet or head of the Jellinghy river was gradually removed three quarters of a mile farther down : and by two furveys of a part of the adjacent bank of the Ganges, taken ibout the diftance ot nine years from each other, it appeared that the breadth of an Engliili mile... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1800 - 614 pages
...Bengal, the outlet or head of the Jellinghy River was gradually removed three quarters of a mile fnrther down : and by two furveys of a part of the adjacent...from each other, it appeared that the breadth of an Englifti mile and .1 half had been taken away. This is, however, the moft rapid change that I have... | |
 | 1782 - 452 pages
...refidencc in Bengal, the outlet or head t)f the Jellinghy river was gradually removed three quarters of a mile farther down : and by two furveys of a part...of the adjacent bank of the Ganges, taken about the diftancc of nine years from •sch other, it appeared that the breadth of an Engliih mile and a half... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - 1782 - 588 pages
...in Bengal, the outlet or head of the Jellinghy river was at length gradually removed three quarters of a mile farther down : and by two furveys of a part...of an Englifh mile and a half had been taken away. A mile, however, in ten or twelve years is the ufual rate of incroachment, in places where the current... | |
 | Several Hands - 1782 - 586 pages
...in Bengal, the outlet or head of ihe JclJinghy river was at length gradually removed three quarters of a mile farther down : and by two furveys of a part...of the adjacent bank of the Ganges^ taken about the difiance of nine years from each other, it appeared that the breadth of an Engliih mile and a half... | |
 | 1800 - 624 pages
...the Jellinghy River was gradually removed three quarters of a mile farther down: and by two iurveys of a part of the adjacent bank of the Ganges, taken...from each other, it appeared that the breadth of an Englifli mile and a half had been taken away. This is, however, the moft rapid change that I have noticed... | |
 | Josiah Conder - 1828 - 374 pages
...mile further down ; and by two surveys of an adjacent bank of the Ganges, taken about the distance of nine years from each other, it appeared that the breadth of an English mile and a half had been taken away The windings of the Ganges in the plains, are doubtless... | |
 | 1835 - 550 pages
...the Gellinghy river was gradually removed three quarters of a mile lower down ; and by two surveys of a part of the adjacent bank of the Ganges, taken about the distance of nine years from each other, it appeared that the breadth of an English mile and a half... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1800 - 726 pages
...refidenre in Bengal, the outlet or head of the Jellinghy River was gradually removed three quarters of a mile farther down: and by two furveys of a part...from each other, it appeared that the breadth of an Engiifli mile and a half had been taken away. This is, however, the moft rapid change that I have noticed;... | |
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During eleven years of my refidenre in Bengal, the outlet or head of the Jellinghy River was gradually removed three quarters of a mile farther down: and by two furveys of a part of the adjacent bank of the Ganges, taken about the... 