Calcutta Review, Volume 32University of Calcutta, 1859 |
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... passing through this labyrinth of interminable forest , mud and water , 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 ...
... passing through this labyrinth of interminable forest , mud and water , 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 ...
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... pass- ed over their submergence . If the present level of their roots could suddenly 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 ...
... pass- ed over their submergence . If the present level of their roots could suddenly 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 ...
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... pass on to the South , we must cease to marvel , if upon boring through the Deltaic soil , we find that its surface has more than once subsided below the ocean , only coming to the surface again to become once more covered by forest ...
... pass on to the South , we must cease to marvel , if upon boring through the Deltaic soil , we find that its surface has more than once subsided below the ocean , only coming to the surface again to become once more covered by forest ...
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... pass- ed into a bed of peat at a distance of about 80 feet from the surface . + Beds of clay and variegated sand , intermixed with kunkur , mica , and small pebbles , alternated to a depth of 120 feet , when the sand became loose and ...
... pass- ed into a bed of peat at a distance of about 80 feet from the surface . + Beds of clay and variegated sand , intermixed with kunkur , mica , and small pebbles , alternated to a depth of 120 feet , when the sand became loose and ...
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... passing , or they may be seen floundering about upon the black mud where they lie in hundreds sunning their little ugly bodies . The Periopthalmus is another ugly little mud fish found in great quantities on all the mud banks in company ...
... passing , or they may be seen floundering about upon the black mud where they lie in hundreds sunning their little ugly bodies . The Periopthalmus is another ugly little mud fish found in great quantities on all the mud banks in company ...
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