Manual of the Administration of the Madras Presidency, in Illustration of the Records of Government & the Yearly Administration Reports, Volume 2E. Keys, 1885 - Great Britain |
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Popular passages
Page 31 - East India Company, in part payment of the debt due by the State of Lahore to the British Government, and of the expenses of the war. 3rd. — The Gem called the Koh-i-noor, which was taken from Shah Shuja-ul-Mulk by Maharajah Ranjit Singh, shall be surrendered by the Maharajah of Lahore to the Queen of England.
Page 282 - NW wind blowing with fury, accumulated the waters at the head of the bay, the unfortunate inhabitants of Coringa saw with terror, three monstrous waves coming in from the sea, and following each other at a short distance. The first sweeping every thing on its passage brought several feet of water into the town. The second, augmented these ravages by inundating all the low country, and the third overwhelmed every thing.
Page 126 - Carolingian letters at the end of the tenth or the beginning of the eleventh century, and revised and annotated by a corrector.
Page 46 - India which lies to the southward and extends to the sea, while he distributed the people subject to her rule into 365 villages, giving orders that one village should each day bring to the treasury the royal tribute, so that the queen might always have the assistance of those men whose turn it was to pay the tribute...
Page 29 - The pebbles most commonly met with are ferruginous, gritty, and schistose sandstones, sandstone conglomerates, embedding rolled pebbles of quartz, chert and jasper ; claystone porphyry, with crystals of felspar ; blue jasper, veined with oxide of iron ; coarse, red jasper, and quartz crystals. Some of these pebbles have evidently been transported from the adjacent hills, but the porphyritic and felspathic pebbles must have travelled a much greater distance. Near the base of the hills the cotton soil...
Page 119 - when an estate is likely to descend to a female on default of male issue, she is forbidden to marry an adult, but goes through the ceremony of marriage with some young male child, or in some cases with a portion of her father's dwellinghouse, on the understanding that she shall be at liberty to amuse herself with any man of her caste, to whom she may take a fancy : and her issue, so begotten, inherits the property ; which is thus retained in the woman's...
Page 119 - Numerous disputes originate in this original custom. And Madura Collectors have sometimes been puzzled not a little by evidence adduced to show that a child of three or four years was the son or daughter of a child of ten or twelve."!
Page 100 - Yataretra by the transposition of two letters. This spelling is countenanced by the termination of the various read144 The inhabitants on the other side of this mountain work extensive mines of gold and silver. Next are the O ratur se, whose king has only ten elephants, though he has a very strong force of ining of Svarataratse, which is found in some editions. It is quite possible, however, that the Svaratar-atse may be intended for the Sur&shtras.
Page 30 - The quartzite covering is from 20 to 30 feet in thickness ; and it is pierced here and there over the Banaganpilly end of the hill, by shafts of 15 feet or less, from the bottoms of which nearly horizontal galleries are run to get at the seams of diamond gangue. The capping is composed of compact grits and sandstones in thickish beds above, and somewhat thinner bedded towards the bottom. " Externally the rocks are hard and vitreous. At the level of the galleries there are beds of coarse pebbly conglomerate,...
Page 209 - this distinctive Dravidian semi-vowel is found in the Tamil alone. Its sound resembles that of the English r after a long vowel, as in the word ' farm,' but it is pronounced further back in the mouth, and in a still more liquid manner. It is sometimes expressed in English books as zh or rzh, but this is merely a local pronunciation of the letter, which is peculiar to the northern district of the Tamil country : it is at variance with its affinities and its interchanges...