The Oriental Interpreter and Treasury of East India Knowledge: A Companion to "The Hand-book of British India."C. Cox, 1848 - 334 էջ |
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... covered with deep pine forests , with small but fertile valleys , producing abundance of grapes , and furnishing pasture for sheep and cattle . Cabul is also mountainous , but has exten- sive plains and forests , though between the city ...
... covered with deep pine forests , with small but fertile valleys , producing abundance of grapes , and furnishing pasture for sheep and cattle . Cabul is also mountainous , but has exten- sive plains and forests , though between the city ...
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... covering . They are a fine handsome race , very fair , many of them having light hair and blue eyes , on which account it has been conjectured that they are the descendants of the Greeks . There seems reason , however , to believe that ...
... covering . They are a fine handsome race , very fair , many of them having light hair and blue eyes , on which account it has been conjectured that they are the descendants of the Greeks . There seems reason , however , to believe that ...
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... covered with loose sand , which in some places is driven by the wind into mounds and hillocks , some of them 100 feet in height ; or else com- posed of hard flat salt loam , wholly destitute of vegetation . In the midst of these burning ...
... covered with loose sand , which in some places is driven by the wind into mounds and hillocks , some of them 100 feet in height ; or else com- posed of hard flat salt loam , wholly destitute of vegetation . In the midst of these burning ...
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... covering being composed of a coat of mud , which they plaster all over their bodies , in order to protect themselves from the insects . Their heads and faces they paint with red ochre . They are an exceedingly savage and igno- rant race ...
... covering being composed of a coat of mud , which they plaster all over their bodies , in order to protect themselves from the insects . Their heads and faces they paint with red ochre . They are an exceedingly savage and igno- rant race ...
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... covered with thick jungles , inundated and intersected in all directions by small rivers , lakes , and creeks . In extreme length it may be estimated at 230 miles from north to south , by an average breadth of fifty miles from east to ...
... covered with thick jungles , inundated and intersected in all directions by small rivers , lakes , and creeks . In extreme length it may be estimated at 230 miles from north to south , by an average breadth of fifty miles from east to ...
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The Oriental Interpreter and Treasury of East India Knowledge: A Companion ... Joachim Hayward Stocqueler Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1848 |
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