Calcutta Review, Volume 32University of Calcutta, 1859 |
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... cultivated and forest - covered country , composed of alluvial or transported soil brought down the country by the Ganges and Brahma- pooter rivers , and their numerous tributaries ; the water - sweep- ings of two basins whose aggregate ...
... cultivated and forest - covered country , composed of alluvial or transported soil brought down the country by the Ganges and Brahma- pooter rivers , and their numerous tributaries ; the water - sweep- ings of two basins whose aggregate ...
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... cultivation in the central por- tion of the Delta being forty - seven miles from the sea . In the sea front of the ... cultivated and densely populat- ed , supporting 420 souls upon each square mile , or nearly 5,000,000 inhabitants ...
... cultivation in the central por- tion of the Delta being forty - seven miles from the sea . In the sea front of the ... cultivated and densely populat- ed , supporting 420 souls upon each square mile , or nearly 5,000,000 inhabitants ...
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... cultivated northern parts of the Delta , where all the breadth of the land is one vast sheet of rice culti- vation . Dr. J. D. Hooker in his interesting Himalayan journal , Vol . II . page 340 , remarks upon several very anomalous ...
... cultivated northern parts of the Delta , where all the breadth of the land is one vast sheet of rice culti- vation . Dr. J. D. Hooker in his interesting Himalayan journal , Vol . II . page 340 , remarks upon several very anomalous ...
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... cultivated ; " but the tigers became so numerous the people left it ; it is now partially cultivated only at Diggerazabad . During all seasons of the year the people say they shut themselves up about 5 o'clock in the evening and stir ...
... cultivated ; " but the tigers became so numerous the people left it ; it is now partially cultivated only at Diggerazabad . During all seasons of the year the people say they shut themselves up about 5 o'clock in the evening and stir ...
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... cultivation told us that down near the mouths of the Mollinchew and Juboona , there is a palace , but the spot they could not mention , indeed there is a degree of fable attached to it , for they believe it to be inhabited ; during the ...
... cultivation told us that down near the mouths of the Mollinchew and Juboona , there is a palace , but the spot they could not mention , indeed there is a degree of fable attached to it , for they believe it to be inhabited ; during the ...
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