 | Robert Montgomery Martin - 1837 - 390 pages
...subsidiaries take their origin from the south face of the Himalaya. The Ganges is 1500 miles long, and 500 miles from the sea the channel is thirty feet deep when the river is at its lowest during the dry season, and its width makes it appear an inland sea. At 200 miles from the ocean the... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - 1837 - 392 pages
...subsidiaries take their origin from the south face of the Himalaya. The Ganges is 1500 miles long, and 500 miles from the sea the channel is thirty feet deep when the river is at its lowest during the dry season, and its width makes it appear an inland sea. At 200 miles from the ocean the... | |
 | John Lemprière - 1838 - 818 pages
...with the Jumna, the Ganges is fordable ; but its navigation is never interrupted. At a distance of 500 miles from the sea, the channel is thirty feet deep when the river is at its lowest. This depth it retains all the way to the sea, where, however, the settling' of sand, by the neutralization... | |
 | William Henry Giles Kingston - 1852 - 450 pages
...the Hindoos, I will give a short description of it. The Ganges is 1,500 miles long, and, as far as 500 miles from the sea, the channel is thirty feet deep when, during the dry season, the river is at its lowest, while so great even there is its width, that it... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1800 - 726 pages
...for the additional ftreams bring a greater acceffion of depth than width. At 500 miles from the fea, the channel is thirty feet deep when the river is at its loweft; and it continues at leaft this depth to the fea, where the fudden expanfion of the ftream deprives... | |
 | 1783 - 742 pages
...for the additional dreams bring a greater acceffion of depth than width At 500 miles from the fea, the channel is thirty feet deep when the river is at its loweft; and it continues at lead this depth to the fea, where the fudden expinfion of the dream deprives... | |
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Below that, the channel is of confidernble depth, for the additional ftreams bring a greater acceffion of depth than width. At 500 miles from the fea, the channel is thirty feet deep when the river is at its loweft; and it continues at... 
