The Calcutta Review, Volumes 64-65University of Calcutta, 1877 |
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... miles ) with an average fall of about 5 feet a mile . Its great descent occurs in the 400 miles or so below Lhasa and above the plains of Assam , of which , to our sorrow , we know no more than War ren Hastings did . The Indus flows to ...
... miles ) with an average fall of about 5 feet a mile . Its great descent occurs in the 400 miles or so below Lhasa and above the plains of Assam , of which , to our sorrow , we know no more than War ren Hastings did . The Indus flows to ...
Page 317
... miles in length , which cuts the narrow neck of land lying between the town of Chittagong and the sea coast . Starting from Chittagong and running north - west it comes out on the sea face some eight miles south of the island of Sandwip ...
... miles in length , which cuts the narrow neck of land lying between the town of Chittagong and the sea coast . Starting from Chittagong and running north - west it comes out on the sea face some eight miles south of the island of Sandwip ...
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... miles after it has passed the southern boundary of thana Fattickcherry . Cultivation is general for those five miles , for the next ten miles it gradually yields to undrained swamps and jungle - covered wastes . Thence , through the fifteen ...
... miles after it has passed the southern boundary of thana Fattickcherry . Cultivation is general for those five miles , for the next ten miles it gradually yields to undrained swamps and jungle - covered wastes . Thence , through the fifteen ...
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