Behar (Patna city) and ShahabadW.H. Allen and Company, 1838 - India |
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Page 420 - ... the Mediterranean, at an altitude of 2,260 feet, at the western end of the exceedingly fertile plain of the Ghuta (a hollow sheltered by hills and watered by the Barada and the Awaj), along the principal branch of the Barada (" Abana," II Kings v. 12; Gk. Chrysorrhoas). It is about a mile in length from east to west and half a mile from north to south, with a suburb of continuous buildings on the south nearly a mile in extent, thus presenting in contour the shape of a mallet with its handle....
Page 7 - Baikunthapur, about 1 1 miles farther west and nine miles farther east than the boundaries which I have assigned. A plan made by a native assistant will show the subdivisions and explain my meaning. The city within the walls is rather more than a mile and a half from east to west, (as may be seen by the plan in the Bengal Atlas, No. 15), extends three quarters of a mile north and south, and is exceedingly closely built. Many of the houses are built of brick, more however are built of mud with tiled...
Page 314 - But there are many women who spin assiduously, and who have no interruptions from children or family, and these make much more, especially where the thread is fine ; there being no sort of comparison between the reward allowed for such, and that given to those who spin coarse thread. As the demand therefore for fine goods has for some years been constantly diminishing, the women have suffered very much.
Page vi - The Governor General in Council is of opinion that these inquiries should commence in the district of Rungpur, and that from thence you should proceed to the westward through each district on the north side of the Ganges, until you reach the western boundary of the Honourable Company's provinces. You will then proceed towards the south and east, until you have examined all the districts on the south side of the great river, and afterwards proceed to Dacca, and the other districts towards the eastern...
Page vi - A Topographical account of each district, including the extent, soil, plains, mountains, rivers, harbours, towns, and subdivisions ; together with an account of the air and weather, and whatever you may discover worthy of remark concerning the history and antiquities of the country. "II. The Condition of the Inhabitants ; their number, the state of their food, clothing, and habitations ; the peculiar diseases to which they are liable ; together with the means that have been taken or may be proposed...
Page x - The annual drain of £ 3,000,000 on British India has amounted in 30 years at 12 per cent, (the usual Indian rate) compound interest to the enormous sum of £ 723,900,000 sterling. So constant and accumulating a drain, even in England, would soon impoverish her. How severe, then, must be its effects in India where the wage of a labourer is from 2d, to 3d, a day.
Page 12 - These with the roads and a few miserable brick bridges are all the public works that I have seen, except those dedicated to. religion. In the middle of the city the Roman Catholics have a church, the best looking building in the place. Near it is the common grave of the English who were treacherously murdered by the orders of Kasem AH before his final overthrow ; it is covered by a pillar of the most uncouth form, built partly of stone, partly of brick. There are many...
Page 298 - ... rs. profit. He does nothing but form the sheets, taking them as usual from the cistern on a frame, which retains the paper, and allows the water to escape. He makes about one ream a day; and, if he works 315 days in the year, he will earn about 80 rs. a year ; and in fact, these people are in easy circumstances. In the 30 houses at Behar are 100 men, and in the 13 divisions exclusive of Arwal, that are in the district, there are probably 40 houses, or in all 140 men, who, at the rate above-mentioned...
Page 67 - ... ditch has been enormous. It is now entirely cultivated, and small canals wind (through it; but, where most entire, on the east face of the fort, it would seem to have been about 600 feet wide; and on the west side, where narrowest, its width does not appear to have been less than 400 feet. The extent of the heaps of brick within the fort shows, that it has contained many large buildings of that material, but no traces of their particular form remain. It is however probable, that they all belonged...
Page 296 - One of the simplest processes for making glass is that practised in the district of Behar. The saline efflorescence of the soil, which is an impure carbonate of soda, is collected and thrown into a cistern lined with clay. This is then filled with water, which is afterwards allowed to evaporate. When dry, the bottom of the cistern is found covered with a thick saline crust, the earth which was intermixed having subsided before the salt began to crystallize. This soda makes glass without any addition,...