India and Her Neighbours, Parte6W.H. Allen & Company, 1878 - 413 páginas |
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... less wooded . In Southern India and the Central Provinces , there are no plains of any magnitude , if we except the strip of coast overlooked by the Eastern and Western Ghauts . Indeed , nearly the whole of Southern India , or the ...
... less wooded . In Southern India and the Central Provinces , there are no plains of any magnitude , if we except the strip of coast overlooked by the Eastern and Western Ghauts . Indeed , nearly the whole of Southern India , or the ...
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... less success , and on the East Indian and Great Indian Peninsular Railways native coal is chiefly used . The low prices , however , at which English and Australian coal is now being delivered at the seaports of India operates against ...
... less success , and on the East Indian and Great Indian Peninsular Railways native coal is chiefly used . The low prices , however , at which English and Australian coal is now being delivered at the seaports of India operates against ...
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... less than that of Madras , number only 16 million souls , or 131 to the square mile . The Central Provinces , though nearly as large as the North - Western , appear to have only 8 million , or an average of 96 to the square mile . This ...
... less than that of Madras , number only 16 million souls , or 131 to the square mile . The Central Provinces , though nearly as large as the North - Western , appear to have only 8 million , or an average of 96 to the square mile . This ...
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... less refined in their tastes , less supple - witted , less patient of steady toil , less slow to move along new paths . Of the " mild Hindoo , " we heard more perhaps twenty years ago than we do now ; and remembering how he behaved ...
... less refined in their tastes , less supple - witted , less patient of steady toil , less slow to move along new paths . Of the " mild Hindoo , " we heard more perhaps twenty years ago than we do now ; and remembering how he behaved ...
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... less a scholar than a warrior , delight- ing in the liberal arts , building gorgeous palaces , and laying out exquisite gardens ; a prince , splendid and magnificent , even in the land of splendour itself . Besides . these more ...
... less a scholar than a warrior , delight- ing in the liberal arts , building gorgeous palaces , and laying out exquisite gardens ; a prince , splendid and magnificent , even in the land of splendour itself . Besides . these more ...
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