Oriental Memoirs: Selected and Abriged from a Series of Familiar Letters Written During Seventeen Years Residence in India ... Observations ... Africa and South America ...Bensley, 1813 |
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... miles of the solemn groves where those voluptuous devotees pass their lives with the ramjannees , or dancing - girls at- tached to the temples , in a sort of luxurious superstition and sanc- tified indolence unknown in colder climates ...
... miles of the solemn groves where those voluptuous devotees pass their lives with the ramjannees , or dancing - girls at- tached to the temples , in a sort of luxurious superstition and sanc- tified indolence unknown in colder climates ...
Side 51
... miles . In Guzerat , as in most other parts of India , the distance from one place to another is reckoned by the coss , which in that province seldom exceeds one mile and a half . Its length varies in different countries , although ...
... miles . In Guzerat , as in most other parts of India , the distance from one place to another is reckoned by the coss , which in that province seldom exceeds one mile and a half . Its length varies in different countries , although ...
Side 52
... miles from Ahmood reached the Dahder , then a small stream , but six years before , when Ragobah's army was encamped on its banks , and I passed a wretched night under the lee - side of an elephant , a tremendous torrent . In the rainy ...
... miles from Ahmood reached the Dahder , then a small stream , but six years before , when Ragobah's army was encamped on its banks , and I passed a wretched night under the lee - side of an elephant , a tremendous torrent . In the rainy ...
Side 62
... miles from Ahmood , although I have made a long digression from the direct road to the distant provinces of Bengal . The town is two miles in circumference , surrounded by a mud wall . The gurry was deemed a place of strength against ...
... miles from Ahmood , although I have made a long digression from the direct road to the distant provinces of Bengal . The town is two miles in circumference , surrounded by a mud wall . The gurry was deemed a place of strength against ...
Side 67
... that name . The bed of the river is six miles broad , although the stream , even at spring - tides , does not exceed two ; but during the floods from the Malwa mountains , where this river rises , it swells to a great height , 67.
... that name . The bed of the river is six miles broad , although the stream , even at spring - tides , does not exceed two ; but during the floods from the Malwa mountains , where this river rises , it swells to a great height , 67.
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Oriental Memoirs: Selected and Abriged from a Series of Familiar Letters ... James Forbes Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1813 |
Oriental Memoirs: Selected and Abriged from a Series of Familiar Letters ... James Forbes Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1813 |
Oriental Memoirs: Selected and Abriged from a Series of Familiar Letters ... James Forbes Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1813 |
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