 | Half hours - 1875 - 360 pages
...Point, the place where the river first contracts itself, and is perceptible above Hoogly town ; and so quick is its motion that it hardly employs four hours in travelling from one to the other, though the distance is nearly seventy miles. "At Calcutta it sometimes occasions an instantaneous rise... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1800 - 726 pages
...confidf rabie portion of the accumulating tide. Jn the Hoogly or Calcutta River, the Боге commence» at Hoogly point (the place where the river firft contracts...travelling from one to the other, although the diftance it near 70 miles. At Calcutta, it fometimes occafions an inflantanebus rife of five feet : and both... | |
 | 1843 - 522 pages
...Hooghly Point, where the river first contracts its width, and is perceptible above Hooghly Town. So quick is its motion, that it hardly employs four hours...in travelling from one to the other, although the distance is nearly seventy miles. It does not run on the Calcutta side, but along the opposite bank,... | |
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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. 
