Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial and Scientific: Products of the Mineral, Vegetable and Animal Kingdoms, Useful Arts and Manufactures, 4권Edward Balfour Printed at the Scottish & Adelphi presses, 1873 |
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Africa amongst ancient appear Arabs Archipelago Asia Assam bark BENG Bengal birds Blyth Bombay brahmans British India brown BURM Burmah called Ceylon chettu chiefly China Chinese coast colour common cultivated district east eastern Europe exported feet fibre fish fishery flowers fossil fruit genus grows Gthr Guinea hair hills Himalaya HIND hindoo inches inhabitants islands Java land language leaves Linn Madras mahomedans Malabar Malacca Malay Malay peninsula Malayan MALEAL Malwa miles Moluccas mountains Naga native Negro Nepal Nepaul Newar nutmeg obtained opium Oraon oysters palm paper Papuan Pavetta pearl Pedda Penang Peninsula of India Persian piculs plant poppy produce province Punjab quantity race resembles Rheede river root Roxb Royle rupees seed shell southern species Sumatra Tenasserim tion tree tribes valley western wood yellow yield
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375 페이지 - Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school : and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used, and, contrary to the king, his crown and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill.
409 페이지 - The moral characteristics of the Papuan appear to me to separate him as distinctly from the Malay as do his form and features. He is impulsive and demonstrative in speech and action. His emotions and passions express themselves in shouts and laughter, in yells and frantic leapings.
56 페이지 - Then said Saul to his servant, But, behold, if we go, what shall we bring the man ? for the bread is spent in our vessels, and there is not a present to bring to the man of God : what have we...
418 페이지 - On one of these trees a dozen or twenty full-plumaged male birds assemble together, raise up their wings, stretch out their necks, and elevate their exquisite plumes, keeping them in a continual vibration. Between whiles they fly across from branch to branch in great excitement, so that the whole tree is filled with waving plumes in every variety of attitude and motion.
229 페이지 - ... is the income derived from the opium monopoly. The cultivation of the poppy is prohibited in Bengal, except for the purpose of selling the juice to the officers of the Government at a certain fixed price. It is manufactured into opium at the Government factories at Patna and Ghazipore, and then sent to Calcutta, and sold by auction to merchants who export it to China.
460 페이지 - In the species now under consideration, the prevailing tints are blue and green, varying in intensity and mutually changing into each other according as the light falls more or less directly upon them. In size and proportions the two...
458 페이지 - State and in all soils and conditions of moisture except in swamps. It is found as a forest tree only in the mountains, where it attains a height of 80 to 100 feet and a diameter of 30 inches. Throughout the other sections of the State it occurs generally in thickets on clay banks or waste places, or singly along fence rows. The twigs and branchlets are armed with straight or slightly curved sharp, strong spines, sometimes as much as...
451 페이지 - Pat grows perfectly wild at Penang, and on the opposite shore of the Malay peninsula in Wellesley province. The Arabs use and export it more than any other nation. Their annual pilgrim-ship takes up an immense quantity of the leaf. They use it principally for stuffing mattresses and pillows, and assert that it is very efficacious in preventing contagion and prolonging life. It requires no sort of preparation, being simply gathered and dried in the sun. Too much drying however...
39 페이지 - The waters are called nara, because they were the production of Nara, or the spirit of God ; and, since they were his first ayana, or place of motion, he thence is named Nayrayana, or moving on the waters.
345 페이지 - Twisted palm sticks are the central stems or mid-ribs of the date-palm ; they are twisted when green, and stretched with heavy weights until they are thoroughly dry. They are imported from the Neapolitan coast, but are considered to be produced in Egypt. The...