Calcutta Review, Volume 32University of Calcutta, 1859 |
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... become exceedingly wearied with the monotonous appearance of the banks of the rivers and creeks , and are only too glad when they escape into the open and cultivated northern parts of the Delta , where all the breadth of the land is one ...
... become exceedingly wearied with the monotonous appearance of the banks of the rivers and creeks , and are only too glad when they escape into the open and cultivated northern parts of the Delta , where all the breadth of the land is one ...
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... become the level of the country , the whole Soon- derbuns would be under water . At a lower level than these trees , beds of a peaty mass composed of decayed and charred wood is pierced in Calcutta , Hooghly , Dum - Dum and elsewhere ...
... become the level of the country , the whole Soon- derbuns would be under water . At a lower level than these trees , beds of a peaty mass composed of decayed and charred wood is pierced in Calcutta , Hooghly , Dum - Dum and elsewhere ...
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... become once more covered by forest with an abundant tropical underwood , or as soon as the abundant alluvion brought down by the Ganges and Brahmapooter had filled up the shal- low estuary , covering up at the same time the submerged ...
... become once more covered by forest with an abundant tropical underwood , or as soon as the abundant alluvion brought down by the Ganges and Brahmapooter had filled up the shal- low estuary , covering up at the same time the submerged ...
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... becoming dark , friable , and apparently containing much vegetable and ferruginous matter . A fine sand succeeded at 170 feet , and this gradu- ally become coarser and mixed with fragments of quartz and felspar to a depth of 180 feet at ...
... becoming dark , friable , and apparently containing much vegetable and ferruginous matter . A fine sand succeeded at 170 feet , and this gradu- ally become coarser and mixed with fragments of quartz and felspar to a depth of 180 feet at ...
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... become baked by a tro- pical sun , and resist to a considerable degree denudation by rain . Whe- ther any further rise is caused by elevation from below is doubtful ; there is no direct evidence of it , though slight earthquakes ...
... become baked by a tro- pical sun , and resist to a considerable degree denudation by rain . Whe- ther any further rise is caused by elevation from below is doubtful ; there is no direct evidence of it , though slight earthquakes ...
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