ACCOUNT OF

BRITISH INDIA,

FROM

THE MOST REMOTE PERIOD TO THE PRESENT TIME:

INCLUDING

A NARRATIVE OF THE EARLY PORTUGUESE AND ENGLISH VOYAGES, THE 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 HINDO0 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 RHIND, ESQ., M.R.C.S.
PROFESSOR WALLACE.

AND CAPTAIN CLARENCE DALRYMPLE,
Hon. East India Company's Service.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. III.

WITH A MAP AND ENGRAVINGS.

NEW-YORK:

PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS,

NO. 82 CLIFF-STREET.

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