Tours in Upper India, and in Parts of the Himalaya Mountains: With Accounts of the Courts of the Native Princes, &c, Volume 2R. Bentley, 1833 - Bengal (India : Presidency). |
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Page 229 - ... boats and two steamers, gave three cheers, and pulled for their vessels, the light from the burning schooner guiding them on their way. Her destruction was complete, and although the clothes of the men and the boats were perforated with balls, not a man [was] killed. Officers and men vied with each other in the performance of their duty. Acting Master Foster applied the match in the cabin of the doomed vessel. Acting Assistant Surgeon WR Bonsall accompanied the expedition, ready, should his services...
Page 183 - ... to chalk out the way they themselves thought best. The consequence has been the want of success to the establishment, although so many years have elapsed since its birth. There are three great studs ; one in the Ghazepore district, a very large one ; one at Haupper, near Meerut ; and the third at Hissar, about one hundred miles north-west of Delhi, in a country possessing fine pastures, and celebrated 260 THE STUD DEPARTMENT. for its breed of cattle. The controlling power is vested in a " Board...
Page 102 - Death ; his medical attendants declaring he cannot last many months. When we passed, his liver was so much affected as to protrude his side to the size of a half quartern loaf. His state was one of great emaciation, and he was a truly pitiable object. His prayer (and it was unheeded) was to be permitted to die at Benares, but the suspicions of the government are too SULTANPORE.
Page 143 - The Ava war, entered upon in all the hurry of fear, was of course not guided by judgment, either in the plan of operations or the most fitting time for commencing them. But I will not here...
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Page 58 - Most of the Jain temples are new; but there is one under repair, bearing evident marks of great antiquity : the people allege it to be 1500 years old, which, from its appearance and architecture (of the simplest kind), may be near the mark.
Page 66 - ... design — the arrangement of the figures, which were too numerous to be computed — the position of them — the sharp and bold relief, and the elaborate ornaments of foliage and animals, render it one of the most remarkable monuments of art it is possible to conceive. There are compartments...
Page 20 - The banks of the river are here prodigiously high, and are cut and perforated into enormous holes and ravines by the action of the rains, while the soil is a hard conker or conglomerated earth. The town, which overhangs these ravines, has a curious aspect, many of the houses appearing perched on crags which have been cut off from the main body.