Narrative of a Journey Through the Upper Provinces of India: From Calcutta to Bombay, 1824-1825, (with Notes Upon Ceylon,) an Account of a Journey to Madras and the Southern Provinces, 1826, and Letters Written in IndiaMurray, 1828 - 515 pages |
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Page 17
... covered with the broad - leaved lotus , and the adjacent " paddy , " or rice - fields , were terminated by a wood of tall coco - nut trees , between whose stems the light was visible , pretty much like a grove of Scotch firs . I here ...
... covered with the broad - leaved lotus , and the adjacent " paddy , " or rice - fields , were terminated by a wood of tall coco - nut trees , between whose stems the light was visible , pretty much like a grove of Scotch firs . I here ...
Page 20
... covered the greater part of the shore ; a few cows were tethered on the banks , and some large brick - fields with sheds like those in England , and here and there a white staring Eu- ropean house , with plantations and shrubberies ...
... covered the greater part of the shore ; a few cows were tethered on the banks , and some large brick - fields with sheds like those in England , and here and there a white staring Eu- ropean house , with plantations and shrubberies ...
Page 22
... covered with earthen vessels , and a display of rice and some kind of pulse heaped up on sheets ; in the midst of which , smoking a sort of rude hookah , made of a short pipe and a coco - nut shell , the trader was squatted on the ...
... covered with earthen vessels , and a display of rice and some kind of pulse heaped up on sheets ; in the midst of which , smoking a sort of rude hookah , made of a short pipe and a coco - nut shell , the trader was squatted on the ...
Page 24
... covered with mats ; the ceilings of bricks , plaistered also , flat , and supported by mas- sive beams , which were visible from the rooms below , but being painted neatly had not at all a bad effect . Punkas , large frames of light ...
... covered with mats ; the ceilings of bricks , plaistered also , flat , and supported by mas- sive beams , which were visible from the rooms below , but being painted neatly had not at all a bad effect . Punkas , large frames of light ...
Page 30
... covered with jungle and stagnant pools , and which still almost every where betrays its unsoundness by the cracks conspicuous in the best houses . To the East , at the distance of four miles and a half , is a large but shallow lagoon of ...
... covered with jungle and stagnant pools , and which still almost every where betrays its unsoundness by the cracks conspicuous in the best houses . To the East , at the distance of four miles and a half , is a large but shallow lagoon of ...
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