 | Thomas Ewing (of Edinburgh.) - 1839 - 348 pages
...end of June the Ganges has risen 15J feet out of 32, which is the extreme height of the inundation. By the latter end of July, all the lower parts of Bengal, or the Sunderbunds, contiguous to the Ganges and Brahmapootra, are overflowed, and form an inundation... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Publication - 1842 - 268 pages
...branches of the Ganges at its junction with the sea." The whole course is fifteen hundred miles. " By the latter end of July, all the lower parts of Bengal contiguous to the Ganges and Brahmaputra are overflowed, and form an inundation of more than one hundred miles in width, nothing... | |
 | John Cameron Lowrie - 1842 - 270 pages
...branches of the Ganges at its junction with the sea." The whole course is fifteen hundred miles. " By the latter end of July, all the lower parts of Bengal contiguous to the Ganges and Brahmaputra are overflowed, and form an inundation of more than one hundred miles in width, nothing... | |
 | William Darby - 1845 - 1030 pages
...matters are brought down as infect the air with the most malignant vapours when the waters retire. By the latter end of July, all the lower parts of Bengal, contiguous to the Ganges and Hurrampooter, »rfc overflowed, and present a surface of water more than 100 ms. wide. As some of the... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - 1846 - 686 pages
...course only. The river begins to rise in the upper part of its course in the month of April ; and by the end of July all the lower parts of Bengal, contiguous to the Ganges and Brahmapootra, are under water. A few days before the middle of August the waters attain their greatest... | |
 | Theodore Dwight - 1846 - 764 pages
...countries ; and when the rain becomes general, the increase on a medium is five inches per day. Before the end of July all the lower parts of Bengal contiguous to the Ganges and Brahmapoutra are overflowed, and form a lake of more than 100 miles ¡n breadth ; nothing appearing... | |
 | Freeman Hunt, Thomas Prentice Kettell, William Buck Dana - 1849 - 714 pages
...there become more general, the medium increase of the water is about five inches a day ; and by the end of July all the lower parts of Bengal contiguous to the Ganges and Brahmaputra, are under water. The Ganges decreases, at the average rate of half an inch per diem, from... | |
 | 1849 - 708 pages
...there become more general, the medium increase of the water is about five inches a day ; and by the end of July all the lower parts of Bengal contiguous to the Ganges and Brahmaputra, are under water. The Ganges decreases, at the average rate of half an inch per diem, from... | |
 | John Cameron Lowrie - 1850 - 294 pages
...sea. Its whole length is fifteen hundred miles in a direct line; its actual length is much greater. By the latter end of July, all the lower parts of Bengal contiguous to the Ganges and Brahmaputra are overflowed, and form an inundation of more than one hundred miles in width, nothing... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - 1851 - 666 pages
...course only. The river begins to rise in the upper part of its course in the month of April ; and by the end of July all the lower parts of Bengal, contiguous to the Ganges and Brahmapootra, are under water. A few days before the middle of August the waters attain their greatest... | |
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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... 
