Memoir of a Map of Hindoostan: Or the Mogul Empire: with an Introduction, Illustrative of the Geography and Present Division of that Country: ... By James Rennell, ... To which is Added, an Appendix, Containing an Account of the Ganges and Burrampooter RiversM. Brown, 1788 - 295 pages |
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... said to resemble Bengal , not only in the flatness of its surface , richness of soil , and periodical inundations ; but also in the food of its inhabitants , which is chiefly rice and fish . The fite of the ancient capital , Braminabad ...
... said to resemble Bengal , not only in the flatness of its surface , richness of soil , and periodical inundations ; but also in the food of its inhabitants , which is chiefly rice and fish . The fite of the ancient capital , Braminabad ...
Page 82
... Said by the Ayin Acbaree to be anciently named lyrawutty ( Mr. Gladwin's tranflation ) . Mr. Boughton Roufe tranflates it from his copy of the Ayin Acbaree , Iravati . This last river , about midway between its fource and This [ 2 ] ...
... Said by the Ayin Acbaree to be anciently named lyrawutty ( Mr. Gladwin's tranflation ) . Mr. Boughton Roufe tranflates it from his copy of the Ayin Acbaree , Iravati . This last river , about midway between its fource and This [ 2 ] ...
Page 163
... fides of India , are crouded together , as Arcot and Sagur ( Sagbeda ) are . At the fame time the central parts are wholly omitted ; as being , in reality , unknown . Some Y 2 may , may treat with ridicule , what I have said on [ 163 ]
... fides of India , are crouded together , as Arcot and Sagur ( Sagbeda ) are . At the fame time the central parts are wholly omitted ; as being , in reality , unknown . Some Y 2 may , may treat with ridicule , what I have said on [ 163 ]
Page 164
... said on the score of PTOLEMY ; but a work which has travelled down to us from the fecond century of our æra , must have poffeffed something worthy to recommend it , and to keep it alive and , at leaft merits an explanation . Mr. Motte's ...
... said on the score of PTOLEMY ; but a work which has travelled down to us from the fecond century of our æra , must have poffeffed something worthy to recommend it , and to keep it alive and , at leaft merits an explanation . Mr. Motte's ...
Page 177
... Said , as well as lower Egypt ; the cataracts being so much . elevated above the lower part of the river : and Egypt alfo differs in another particular , from India , in that no rain falls there to wash away the light parts of the foil ...
... Said , as well as lower Egypt ; the cataracts being so much . elevated above the lower part of the river : and Egypt alfo differs in another particular , from India , in that no rain falls there to wash away the light parts of the foil ...
Common terms and phrases
Agimere Agra alfo alſo ancient appears army Arrian Attock Aurungabad Ayin Acbaree bank Bengal Berar Bombay Burhanpour Cabul Calpy Candahar Cape Comorin capital Capt Carnatic Caſhmere Cattack circars circumftance coaft coffes confiderable conqueft courfe courſe croffed D'Anville Deccan defcribed Delhi difference of longitude Dilla diſtance divifion eaft eaſt eaſtern Emperor empire eſtabliſhed faid fame fays fhould fide fince firſt fituated fome foubah fouth ftate ftream fubject fuch fuppofed furniſhed furvey Ganges Gauts Golconda Guzerat hiftory himſelf Hindoo Hindooftan Hydrabad India Indus iſlands itſelf Lahore latitude leaſt longitude Madras Mahrattas Malwa meaſured Mogul Mogul empire moſt Moultan mountains muſt Nagpour Negapatam Nizam obfervations occafion Oude Panjab peninfula Perfian poffeffed poffeffion pofition Poonah poſition prefent provinces Ptolemy reckoned refpect river road route Sanore Shah ſmall ſtate Surat thefe theſe thofe thoſe tract Vifiapour weft weſt weſtern whofe
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Page 269 - Burrampaoter, are overflowed, and form an inundation of more than a hundred miles in width ; nothing appearing but villages and trees, excepting very rarely the top of an elevated fpot; (the artificial mound of fome deferted village) appearing like an ifland.
Page 265 - The bay, so corroded, in time becomes large enough to give a new direction to the body of the canal: and the matter excavated from the bay is...
Page 277 - I mean, is, that during the laft 60 miles before its junction with the Ganges, it forms a ftream which is regularly from four to five miles wide, and but for its frefhnefs might pafs for an arm of the fea.
Page 276 - Laffa (in which is the residence of did grand Lama) and then deviating from an eaft to a fouth-eaft courfe, it approaches within 220 miles of Yunan, the wefternmoft province of China. Here it appears, as if Undetermined whether to attempt a...
Page 268 - As a ftrong preemptive proof of the wandering of the Ganges from the one fide of the Delta to the other, I muft obferve, that there is no appearance of virgin earth between the Tiperah hills on the eaft, and the province of Burdwan on the weft; nor on the north till we arrive at Decca and Bauleah.
Page 273 - November, it gradually lessens from three inches to an inch and a half; and from November to the latter end of April, the decrease is only half an inch per day at a medium.
Page 277 - I have in my poflefilon a manufcript draught of the Ava river, to within 150 miles of the place where Du HALDE leaves the Nou Kian, in its courfe towards Ava ; together with very authentic information that this river (named Irabattey by the people of Ava) is navigable from the city of Ava into the province of Yunan in China*. The Burrampooter, during a courfe of 400 miles through Bengal, bears fo intimate a refemblance to the Ganges, except in one particular, .that one defcription may ferve for both.
Page 278 - Calcutta, it fometimes occafions an inftantaneous rife of five feet : and both here, and in every other part of its track, the boats, on its approach, immediately quit the more, and make for fafety to the middle of the river.
Page 257 - America, where the carrying places not only obftruft the progrefs of an army, but enable the adverfary to' determine his place and mode of attack with certainty. * In its courfe ' through the plains, it receives eleven rivers, fome of which are equal to the Rhine, and none fmaller than the Thames, befides as many of letter note.
Page 92 - Attock now stands : because, first, it appears to have been, in all ages, the pass on the Indus leading from the countries of Cabul and Candahar into India ; and this is strongly indicated by the circumstance of Acbar's building the fortress of Attock to command it.