HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE 



ACCOUNT OF^^^ 



BRITISH INDIA, 



FROM 

 THE MOST REMOTE PERIOD TO THE PRESENT TIME : 



INCLUDING 

 A NARRATIVE OF THE EARLY PORTUGUESE AND ENGLISH VOYAGES, THF. 

 REVOLUTIONS IN THE MOGUL EMPIRE, AND THE ORIGIN, PROGRESS, AND 

 ESTABLISHMENT OF THE BRITISH POWER; WITH ILLUSTRATIONS OF 

 THE ZOOLOGY, BOTANY, CLIMATE, GEOLOGY, AND MINERALOGY. ALSO 

 MEDICAL OBSERVATIONS,-AN ACCOUNT OF THE HINDOO ASTRONOMY 

 —THE TRIGONOMETRICAL SURVEYS,— AND THE NAVIGATION OF THE 

 INDIAN SEAS. 



BY 



HUGH MURRAY, ESQ., F.R.S.E. 



JAMES WILSON, ESQ., F.R.S.E. AND M.W.S. 



R. K. GREVILLE, LL.D. 



PROFESSOR JAMESON. 



WHITELAW AINSLIE, M.D., M.R.A.3., 



Late of the Medical Slaff of Southern India. 



WILLIAM RHIND, ESQ., M.R.C.9. 



PROFESSOR WALLACE. 



AND CAPTAIN CLARENCE DALRVMPLE, 



Hon. East India Company's Service. 



IN THREE VOLUMES. 

 VOL. II. 



WITH A MAP AND ENGRAVINGS. 



NEW-YORK : 

 PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY J. & J. HARPER, 



NO. 82 CLIFF-8TRBKT, 



AND SOLD BV THE PRINCIPAL BOOKSELLERS THROUOHOUT 



THE UNITED STATES. 



1832. 



