 Burrampooter, are overflowed, and form an inundation of more than a hundred miles in width ; nothing appearing but villages and trees, excepting very rarely the top of an elevated (pot (the artificial mound of fome deferted village) appearing like an...  Annual Register - Pagina 39geredigeerd door - 1800Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1783 - 736 pagina’s
...; fbrthe increafe is only about an inch per day for the firft fortnight. It then gradually augments to two and three inches before any quantity of rain falls in the flat ttuirtries ; and when the rain becomes jeticral, theincreaf« on a medium is five JKhesperday. By the... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1781 - 506 pagina’s
...for the iacreafe is only about an inch per day for the firft fortnight. It then gradually augments to two and three inches before any quantity of rain...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... | |
 | 1802 - 546 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | 1784 - 514 pagina’s
...the increafe is only about an inch ff day for the firlt fortnight. It then gradually augments to r.vo and three inches before any quantity of rain falls...Bengal, contiguous to the Ganges and Burrampooter, arc overflowed, and form an inundation of more than a hundred miles in width ; nothing appearing but... | |
 | James Rennell - 1793 - 594 pagina’s
...any proportion to the increase of the river. day, for the first fortnight. It then gradually augments to two and three inches, before any quantity of rain...countries; and when the rain becomes general, the increase, at a medium, is five inches per day. By the latter end of July, all the lower parts of Bengal,... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 430 pagina’s
...increafe being only at the rate of one inch per day for the firft fortnight. It then gradually augments to two and three inches before any quantity of rain falls in the low countries ; and «hen the rain becomes general, the increafe at a medium is five inches per day.... | |
 | 1800 - 624 pagina’s
...for the increafe is only about an inch per day for the firft fortnight. It then gradually augments to two and three inches before any quantity of rain...is five inches per day. By the latter end of July ail the lower parts of Bengal, contiguous to the Ganges and Burrampooter, are overflowed, and form... | |
 | 1800 - 620 pagina’s
...for the increafe is only about an inch per day for the firft fortnight. It then gradually augments to two and three inches before any quantity of rain...the increafe on a medium is five inches per day. By (he latter end of July all the lower parts of Beng I, contiguous to the Ganges and Burrampooter, are... | |
 | John Dougall - 1810 - 660 pagina’s
...swell the 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... | |
 | Baptist Missionary Society - 1811 - 92 pagina’s
...begins with 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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