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Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Part I June 1845

1845

The Daserah the Suddee 10th of the month Asoo the commencement of the Hindoo military year the opening of the season for the military operations. [...] From Poormaumla on the N. to the Pennaur it is sub-divided into two vallies by a central range of hills which passes by the town of Budwail ; the lowest parts of these vallies are marked by the S. courses of the Toomall in that to the East and by that of Sagglair in the valley to the W. In the valley of Budwail the Cuddapah limestone with its assocated argillaceous shales of different shades [...] It stands on the left bank of the Pennaur a little to the East of the emergence of this river from the gorge of the Gundicotta hills which form the Western lip. [...] About the middle of the Pass under the walls of the fortress of Oundicotta which crown the Southern cliffs the sides are precipitous masses of sandstone divided by fissures into vertical pinnacles assmilating ruins and which are occasionally undermined by the force of the monsoon freshes and precipitated into the bed of the river. [...] As we threaded the tortuous path the rushing sounds of the rapids became clearly distinguishable from the shriller whistling of the wind and the pattering of the rain among the leaves and branches of the trees.
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Pages
93
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India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
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393-398 The Secretary view
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398-426 The Secretary view
On the Meris and Abors of Assam. By Lieut. J. T. E. Dalton. Assistant Commissioner. Assam. In a letter to Major Jenkins. Communicated by the Goovernment of India
426-430 The Secretary view
Notice of some Unpublished Coins of the Indo-Scythians. By Lieutenant Alexander Cunningham Engineers
430-441 The Secretary view
On Kunker formations with Specimens. By Captain J. Abbott B. A.
442-444 J. Abbott view
An account of the Early Abdalees. By Major R. Leech C. B. Late Political Agent. Candahar
445-470 The Secretary view
Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal June 1845
lv-lxv The Secretary view

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