| Edmund Burke - 1800 - 614 sider
...countries ; and when the rain becomes general, the increafe on a medium is five inches per day. By the latter end of July 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... | |
| Tobias Smollett - 1781 - 506 sider
...countries ; and when the rain becomes general, the increafe on a medium is five inches per day. By the latter end of July 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... | |
| James Rennell - 1788 - 514 sider
...countries ; aad when the rain becomes -general, .the increafe on a medium is five inches per day. By the latter end! of July 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... | |
| Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 430 sider
...countries ; and «hen the rain becomes general, the increafe at a medium is five inches per day. By the latter end of July, all the lower parts of Bengal, contiguous to the Ganges and Burrampooter, are overflowed, and prefent a furface of water more than ioo miles wide.... | |
| John Pinkerton - 1804 - 706 sider
...rainy season begins early in April ; but rarely in the plains till the latter end of June. " By the latter end of July 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... | |
| John Dougall - 1810 - 660 sider
...the rivers so, that the adjoining lands are inundated for a considerable extent on each side. In the latter end of July all the lower parts of Bengal contiguous to the Ganges and the Burrampooter, are overflowed, forming an inundation of more than a hundred miles... | |
| Baptist Missionary Society - 1811 - 92 sider
...with March, and continues to the end of May. The rainy season continues from June to September. By the latter end of July all the lower parts of Bengal, contiguous to the two great rivers, are overflowed to an extent of above 100 miles in width, nothing appearing but... | |
| Richard Brookes - 1812 - 822 sider
...matters are brought down as inlect the air with the most malignant vapour* when the waters retire. By the latter end of July, all the lower parts of Bengal, contiguous to the Ganges and Bnrrampooter, are overflowed, and present a surface of w At er more than 100 miles wide.... | |
| Richard Brookes, William Darby - 1827 - 904 sider
...matters are brought down as infect the air with the most malignant vapours when the waters retire. By the latter end of July, all the lower parts of Bengal, contiguous to the Ganges and Burrampooter, are overflowed, and present a surface of water more than 100 ms. wide.... | |
| Josiah Conder - 1834 - 748 sider
...first fortnight at an inch per day, which gradually augments to a mean increase of five inches. By the latter end of July, all the lower parts of Bengal contiguous to the Ganges and the Brahmapootra are overflowed, and throughout the inundated tract, more than 100 miles... | |
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