| 1783 - 736 pages
...all the lower parts of Bengal, contiguous to the Ganges and Burrampooter, are overflowed, and form an inundation of more than a hundred miles in width...trees; excepting very rarely the top of an elevated fpot (the artificial mound of fomt deferted village) appearing like an ¡(land. The inundations in... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1800 - 614 pages
...all the lower parts of Bengal, contiguous to the Ganges and Burrampooter, are overflowed, and form an inundation of more than a hundred miles in width...trees, excepting very rarely the top of an elevated (pot (the artificial mound of fome deferted village) appearing like an if.and. The inundations in Bengal... | |
| Tobias Smollett - 1781 - 506 pages
...all the lower parts of Bengal, contiguous to the Ganges and Burrampaoter, are overflowed, and form an inundation of more than a hundred miles in width...trees, excepting very rarely the top of an elevated fpot; (the artificial mound of fome deferted village) appearing like an ifland. ', V The inundations... | |
| Several Hands - 1782 - 586 pages
...the annual inundation of this immenfe river, the country is overflowed to the extent of more than 100 miles in width ; nothing appearing but villages and trees, excepting very rarely the top of an elçvated fpot, the artificial mound of fome deferted village, appearing like an iihnd. The rife of... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - 1782 - 588 pages
...the annual inundation of this immenfe river, the country is overflowed to the extent of more than 100 miles in width; nothing appearing but villages and trees, excepting very rarely the tup of in elevated fpot, the artificial artificial mound of fome deferted village, appearing like ait... | |
| James Rennell - 1788 - 496 pages
...all the lower parts of Bengal, contiguous to the Ganges and Burrampooter, are overflowed, and form an inundation of more than a hundred miles in width...trees., excepting very rarely the top of an elevated fpot (the artificial mound of fome defertcd village) appearing like an ifland. The inundations in Bengal... | |
| James Rennell - 1793 - 594 pages
...all the lower parts of Bengal, contiguous to the Ganges and Burrampooter, are overflowed, and form an inundation of more than a hundred miles in width...excepting very rarely, the top of an elevated spot (the artificial mound of some deserted village) appearing like an island. The inundations in Bengal,... | |
| 1800 - 624 pages
...ail the lower parts of Bengal, contiguous to the Ganges and Burrampooter, are overflowed, and form an inundation of more than a hundred miles in width...trees, excepting very rarely the top of an elevated ipot (the artificial mound of fome deferted village) appearing like an ¡flared. The inundations in... | |
| 1800 - 620 pages
...all the lower parts of Beng I, contiguous to the Ganges and Burrampooter, are overflowed, and form an inundation of more than a hundred miles in width...trees, excepting very rarely the top of an elevated fpot (the artificial mound of fome deferted village) appearing like an iiland. The i; undations in... | |
| John Walker - 1801 - 978 pages
...the country is overflowed to the extent of more than 100 miles inwidih; nothing appearing above water but villages and trees, excepting, very rarely, the top of an elevated (pot, the artificial mound of lome delerled villnge, which appears like an ill , nl. The rilé of the... | |
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