The Oriental Interpreter and Treasury of East India Knowledge: A Companion to "The Hand-book of British India."C. Cox, 1848 - 334 páginas |
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... covered with deep pine forests , with small but fertile valleys , producing abundance of grapes , and furnishing pasture for sheep and cattle . Cabul is also mountainous , but has exten- sive plains and forests , though between the city ...
... covered with deep pine forests , with small but fertile valleys , producing abundance of grapes , and furnishing pasture for sheep and cattle . Cabul is also mountainous , but has exten- sive plains and forests , though between the city ...
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... covering . They are a fine handsome race , very fair , many of them having light hair and blue eyes , on which account it has been conjectured that they are the descendants of the Greeks . There seems reason , however , to believe that ...
... covering . They are a fine handsome race , very fair , many of them having light hair and blue eyes , on which account it has been conjectured that they are the descendants of the Greeks . There seems reason , however , to believe that ...
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... covered with loose sand , which in some places is driven by the wind into mounds and hillocks , some of them 100 feet in height ; or else com- posed of hard flat salt loam , wholly destitute of vegetation . In the midst of these burning ...
... covered with loose sand , which in some places is driven by the wind into mounds and hillocks , some of them 100 feet in height ; or else com- posed of hard flat salt loam , wholly destitute of vegetation . In the midst of these burning ...
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... covering being composed of a coat of mud , which they plaster all over their bodies , in order to protect themselves from the insects . Their heads and faces they paint with red ochre . They are an exceedingly savage and igno- rant race ...
... covering being composed of a coat of mud , which they plaster all over their bodies , in order to protect themselves from the insects . Their heads and faces they paint with red ochre . They are an exceedingly savage and igno- rant race ...
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... covered with thick jungles , inundated and intersected in all directions by small rivers , lakes , and creeks . In extreme length it may be estimated at 230 miles from north to south , by an average breadth of fifty miles from east to ...
... covered with thick jungles , inundated and intersected in all directions by small rivers , lakes , and creeks . In extreme length it may be estimated at 230 miles from north to south , by an average breadth of fifty miles from east to ...
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abundance Agra Allahabad amongst animals appointed Assam Aurungabad Bahar bank Bejapoor Bengal Bombay Brahmuns British cadets Calcutta called capital Carnatic celebrated Ceylon chief chiefly China Chinese Circars cloth coast colour cotton court of directors custard-apples deity Delhi district Doorga east eastern enacted English European feet formerly fruit Ganges gold Gondwana governor governor-general in council governor-general of India grains Guzerat hills Himalaya Hindoo Hindoo mythology Hindostanee inhabitants island kind Kistna land Long Madras Mahomedan majesty Malabar Malays Malwa ment miles military month mountains Mysore natives northern Northern Circars officers Orissa pairs Parvati Persian persons planted population presidency principal produce province rajah regulations religion respectively rice river rupees sacred servants situated in Lat Siva tains temple term territories Thibet tion town in India tree tribes vegetables village vince Vishnu western wild worship
Passagens conhecidas
Página 143 - This fast is extremely rigorous and mortifying when the month of Ramadan happens to fall in summer, (for the Arabian year being lunar,' each month runs through all the different seasons in the course of thirtythree years), the length and heat of the days making the observance of it much more difficult and uneasy then than in winter. The reason given why the month of Ramadan was pitched on for this purpose is, that on that month the Koran was sent down from heaven.
Página 315 - Company, or any Part of the unwritten Laws or Constitution of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland whereon may depend in any Degree the Allegiance of any Person to the Crown of the United Kingdom, or the Sovereignty or Dominion of the said Crown over any Part of the said Territories.
Página 315 - ... to make laws and regulations for all persons, whether British or native, foreigners or others, and for all courts of justice, whether established by his majesty's charters or otherwise, and the jurisdiction thereof...
Página 326 - Assembly; be it therefore enacted by the authority aforesaid, that it shall and may be lawful for His Majesty, his heirs and successors, by warrant under...
Página 311 - An Act for establishing certain Regulations for the better Management of the Affairs of the East India Company, as well in India as in Europe...
Página 316 - Saint George or Bombay, the Governor of such Presidency shall act as an extraordinary member of Council ; and as often as the said Council shall assemble...
Página 305 - An Act for continuing in the East India Company for a further term the possession of the British territories in India...
Página 309 - ... contained to the contrary notwithstanding. XV. Provided also, and be it enacted, that nothing herein contained shall be deemed, construed or taken to extend to...
Página 305 - ... for continuing in the East India Company, for a further term, the possession of the British territories in India, together with certain exclusive privileges ; for establishing further regulations for the Government of the said territories, and the better administration of justice within the same) and for regulating the trade, to and from the places within the limits of the said Company's Charter.
Página 323 - Provided always, and be it enacted, that it shall not be lawful for any...