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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, 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 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 RHIND, ESQ., M.R.C.S.;
PROFESSOR WALLACE;

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

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