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" By the latter end of July all the lower parts of Bengal, contiguous to the Ganges and... "
Encyclopędia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature ... - Page 300
edited by - 1851
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Annual Register, Volume 24

Edmund Burke - History - 1800 - 614 pages
...; 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 width ; nothing...
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The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature, Volume 52

Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1781 - 506 pages
...; 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 width ; nothing...
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The European Magazine: And London Review, Volume 42

1802 - 546 pages
...The inland navigation of Bengal gives confiant employment to го.ооо boatmen ; and by the laMer end of July all the lower parts of Bengal, contiguous to the rivers, are overflowed more than юэ miles in width — From what we have here extracted, the reader...
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Memoir of a Map of Hindoostan; Or, The Mogul Empire: With an Introduction ...

James Rennell - Cartography - 1788 - 514 pages
...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 width ; nothing...
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Encyclopędia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts ..., Volume 3, Part 1

Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 430 pages
...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. This valt collection...
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Modern Geography: A Description of the Empires, Kingdoms, States ..., Volume 2

John Pinkerton - Atlases - 1804 - 706 pages
...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 width ; nothing...
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The Modern Preceptor ; Or, a General Course of Education, Volume 2

John Dougall - 1810 - 660 pages
...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 in width; nothing...
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Brief Narrative of the Baptist Mission in India: Including an Account of ...

Baptist Missionary Society - Baptists - 1811 - 92 pages
...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 villages...
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Brookes's General Gazetteer Improved: Or, A New and Compendious Geographical ...

Richard Brookes - Geography - 1812 - 822 pages
...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. As some of...
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Darby's Universal Gazetteer: Or, A New Geographical Dictionary ...

Richard Brookes, William Darby - Gazetteers - 1827 - 904 pages
...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. As some of the...
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