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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... miles . in the wideft place , that is , in the the breadth is at least 330 miles ; but less than 150 in the parallel of Tritchinopoly ; and further fouthward , it ends in a point . In page xcvi , its area has been compared to that of ...
... miles . in the wideft place , that is , in the the breadth is at least 330 miles ; but less than 150 in the parallel of Tritchinopoly ; and further fouthward , it ends in a point . In page xcvi , its area has been compared to that of ...
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... miles . I have not been able to get the true length of the cofs , as fixed by Acbar , and other Emperors ; and ... miles ) the difference is not more than one - fixteenth part . The miles vary much more in their proportions , in the ...
... miles . I have not been able to get the true length of the cofs , as fixed by Acbar , and other Emperors ; and ... miles ) the difference is not more than one - fixteenth part . The miles vary much more in their proportions , in the ...
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... miles . Probably 1 in 8 * may be a pretty just general pro- portion for distances of about a 100 miles : that is , 8 miles by the road , will be feven direct ; or what is commonly termed bird- flight and where the extent is from 200 to 300 ...
... miles . Probably 1 in 8 * may be a pretty just general pro- portion for distances of about a 100 miles : that is , 8 miles by the road , will be feven direct ; or what is commonly termed bird- flight and where the extent is from 200 to 300 ...
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... miles † from Calcutta , is the extreme point of the Bengal furvey on the SW ; or on the quarter towards Madras . Col ... miles , or thofe of 60 to a degree , in the account of the conftruction of the map ; and of British ftatute miles in ...
... miles † from Calcutta , is the extreme point of the Bengal furvey on the SW ; or on the quarter towards Madras . Col ... miles , or thofe of 60 to a degree , in the account of the conftruction of the map ; and of British ftatute miles in ...
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... miles of west- ing , or 1 ° 52 ′ 54 ′′ difference of longitude , from Ganjam to Vifagapa- tam ; from which if we deduct the proportion of the error in the dif- tance ( fee page 10 ) the true difference of longitude will be 1 ° 50 ′ 39 ...
... miles of west- ing , or 1 ° 52 ′ 54 ′′ difference of longitude , from Ganjam to Vifagapa- tam ; from which if we deduct the proportion of the error in the dif- tance ( fee page 10 ) the true difference of longitude will be 1 ° 50 ′ 39 ...
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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.