HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE 



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BRITISH INDIA, 



FROM 

 THE MOST REMOTE PERIOD TO THE PRESENT TIME : 



INCLITBINO 



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

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

 ESTABLISHMENT OF THE BRITISH POWER ; VCITH ILLUSTRATIONS OP 

 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.S., 



Late of the Medical Staff of Southern India. 



WILLIAM RHLND, ESQ., M.R.C.S. 



PROFESSOR WALLACE. 



AND CAPTAIN CLARENCE DALRYMPLE, 

 Hon. East India Company's Service. 



IN THREE VOLinWES. 

 VOL. III. 



WITH A MAP AND ENGRAVINGS. 



NEW-YORK : 

 PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY J. & J. HARPER, 



NO. 82 CLIFF-STREET, 



AND SOLD BY THE PRINCIPAL BOOKSELLERS THROUOHOnT 



THE UNITED STATES. 



1832. 



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