The Calcutta Review, Volume 21University of Calcutta, 1853 |
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Page 179
... canal yields Government a net revenue of two lakhs , of which very little is expended in preventing its silting up , or in widening it in certain parts . Passing this canal , the Rubicon of Calcutta , we are clear of Calcutta , with its ...
... canal yields Government a net revenue of two lakhs , of which very little is expended in preventing its silting up , or in widening it in certain parts . Passing this canal , the Rubicon of Calcutta , we are clear of Calcutta , with its ...
Page 184
... canals of irrigation are likely to have on the supply of water which the rivers Jumna and Ganges send to the Lower Provinces . The coal mines give employment to boatmen on this river in carrying 81,000 tons of coal annually to Calcutta ...
... canals of irrigation are likely to have on the supply of water which the rivers Jumna and Ganges send to the Lower Provinces . The coal mines give employment to boatmen on this river in carrying 81,000 tons of coal annually to Calcutta ...
Page 208
... canal debouches at Cawnpur , the road crosses it . A magnificent monument to British enterprise , cost- ing one and a half million sterling , extending 898 miles , and irrigating five and a half millions of acres : 208 THE GRAND TRUNK ...
... canal debouches at Cawnpur , the road crosses it . A magnificent monument to British enterprise , cost- ing one and a half million sterling , extending 898 miles , and irrigating five and a half millions of acres : 208 THE GRAND TRUNK ...
Page 215
... canal , designed to secure 3,320,000 acres from the effects of drought . Delhi is visible twenty miles before reaching it ; the Kutab Minar towers aloft , surrounded by masses of ruins . The city , which once received its crore of ...
... canal , designed to secure 3,320,000 acres from the effects of drought . Delhi is visible twenty miles before reaching it ; the Kutab Minar towers aloft , surrounded by masses of ruins . The city , which once received its crore of ...
Page 218
... canal - Ali Mardan was a noble of Shah Jehan's time - it draws its waters from the Jumna , near Kurnal , 185 miles ... canals , see Asiatic Journal , 1833 , No. 15. , Ditto No. 171 , for 1846 ; Major Baker's Memoranda of the Western ...
... canal - Ali Mardan was a noble of Shah Jehan's time - it draws its waters from the Jumna , near Kurnal , 185 miles ... canals , see Asiatic Journal , 1833 , No. 15. , Ditto No. 171 , for 1846 ; Major Baker's Memoranda of the Western ...
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