Himalayan Journals, Or, Notes of a Naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia Mountains, &c, Volume 1 |
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... miles below Calcutta , the scenery becomes beautiful , beginning with the Botanic Garden , once the residence of Roxburgh and Wallich , and now of Falconer , -classical ground to the naturalist . Opposite are the gardens of Sir Lawrence ...
... miles below Calcutta , the scenery becomes beautiful , beginning with the Botanic Garden , once the residence of Roxburgh and Wallich , and now of Falconer , -classical ground to the naturalist . Opposite are the gardens of Sir Lawrence ...
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... miles distant . The docility of these animals is an old story , but it loses so much in the telling , that their gentleness , obedience , and sagacity seemed as strange to me as if I had never heard or read of these attributes . The ...
... miles distant . The docility of these animals is an old story , but it loses so much in the telling , that their gentleness , obedience , and sagacity seemed as strange to me as if I had never heard or read of these attributes . The ...
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... miles beyond Taldangah we passed from the sandstone , in which the coal lies , to a very barren country of gneiss and granite rocks , upon which the former rests ; the country still rising , more hills appear , and towering far above ...
... miles beyond Taldangah we passed from the sandstone , in which the coal lies , to a very barren country of gneiss and granite rocks , upon which the former rests ; the country still rising , more hills appear , and towering far above ...
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... miles to the west , we took a path through beautifully wooded plains , with scattered trees of the Mahowa ( Bassia latifolia ) , resembling good oaks : the natives distil a kind of arrack from its fleshy flowers , which are also eaten ...
... miles to the west , we took a path through beautifully wooded plains , with scattered trees of the Mahowa ( Bassia latifolia ) , resembling good oaks : the natives distil a kind of arrack from its fleshy flowers , which are also eaten ...
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... miles , the absence of which was a sign of the nearly approaching termination of the great hilly plateau we had been traversing for that distance . Chorparun , at the top of the Dunwah pass , is situated on an extended barren flat ...
... miles , the absence of which was a sign of the nearly approaching termination of the great hilly plateau we had been traversing for that distance . Chorparun , at the top of the Dunwah pass , is situated on an extended barren flat ...
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