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The Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal October 1839

1840

The climate is on the whole good but is more commended by the opulent than the poor of whom many leave the district in the winter for the warmer ones to the east induced by the severity of the cold the scarcity of fuel and the difficulty of obtaining employment and wages in that season. [...] Of this class is the valley of Chitrul so called from a town situated on the Kashkar river and the capital of one of the four principalities of that country (see paragraph 17.) The numerous valleys of Swad Bhooner and Pukhlee are warm as is that of Khost comprehended in the revenue division of Bun►oo from which it lies in a westerly direction in the bosom of the range of 32e. [...] die from drought or are killed by the severity of the frost that usually accompanies dry winters; where it used to fall as snow the crops wanting this protection are exposed to the frost and the hopes of the spring which partly rested on the melting of the snows in the hills are disappointed. [...] Having now mentioned in succession the altitudes of the mountains and their course the slope and conformation of the land the sources of the rivers the heat of the climates and the periods and quantities of the rains and snow we may proceed to deduce from these facts in combination the periods of the rising and falling of the streams and rivers. [...] The periods of the Indus and the rivers of the Punjab are nearly the same as those of the Ganges and its tributary branches which are lowest in the winter rise somewhat in the spring and are highest in the middle of August.
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Pages
93
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India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
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Art. I.—Memoir on the Climate Soil Produce and Husbandry of Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries.—By Lieut. Irwin
779-804 Acting Secretaries view
Art. II.—March between Mhow and Saugor 1838
805-822 Acting Secretaries view
Art. III.—On an Aerolite Presented to the Society
822-823 Acting Secretaries view
Art. IV.—Extracts from the Mohit (the Ocean) a Turkish Work on Navigation in the Indian Seas. Translated and Communicated by Joseph Von Hammer Baron Purgestall Aulic Counsellor and Professor of Oriental Languages at Vienna &c. &c
823-830 Acting Secretaries view
Art. V.—Description of an Astronomical Instrument Presented by Raja Ram Sing of Khota to the Government of India.—By J.J. Middleton Esq. of the Hindoo College Calcutta
831-838 Acting Secretaries view
Art. VI.—Extract from a Memoir on the Preparations of the Indian Hemp or Gunjah (Cannabis Indica) their Effects on the Animal System in Health and their Utility in the Treatment of Tetanus and Other Convulsive Diseases.—By. W.B. O’Shaughnessy M.D. Professor in the Medical College of Calcutta &c. &c
838-851 Acting Secretaries view
Art. VII.—Memorandum of Experiments on the Explosion of Gunpowder under Water by the Galvanic Battery; with a Notice of the Successful Destruction of the Wreck of the “Equitable ” at Fultah Reach.—By W.B. O’Shaughnessy M.D. Assistant Surgeon. &c. &c
851-863 Acting Secretaries view
Art. VIII.—Proceedings of the Asiatic Society
863-866 Acting Secretaries view

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