is not apiece of water with regular banks, " crowned with rows or avenues of trees, with an artificial dyke and " sluices, and with fields around it, but it is an irregular expanse of " water ; its banks are formed by rugged hills, covered with low forests... The Gazetteer of the Central Provinces of India - Side xxredigeret af - 1870 - 582 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
| 1897 - 918 sider
...expanse of water; Its banks are formed by rugged hills, covered with low forests that fringe the margins where the wild beasts repair to drink: its dykes,...chasms or fissures in the rock; its broad surface I* often, as the monsoon approaches, lashed into surging and crested waves." On the borders of these... | |
| 1867 - 516 sider
...and with fields around it, but it is an irregular expanse of water; its banks are formed by nigged hills covered with low forests that fringe the water,...hills, are thrown athwart the hollows, — a part only beiug formed by masonry; its sluices often consist of chasms or fissures in the rock ; its broad surface... | |
| William Wilson Hunter - 1885 - 478 sider
...water, where the wild beasts repair to drink; its dykes, mainly shaped out of spurs from the hill, are thrown athwart the hollows, a part only being...surface is often, as the monsoon approaches, lashed with surging and crested w1ves.' The principal lakes bear the names of Nawdgdon, Seoni, and Siregdon,... | |
| William Wilson Hunter (Sir).) - 1885 - 492 sider
...wild beasts repair to drink ; its dykes, mainly shaped out of spurs from the hill, are thrown achwart the hollows, a part only being formed by masonry ;...chasms or fissures in the rock ; its broad surface is nf>pn, as the monsoon approaches, lashed with surging and crested wives.' The principal lakes bear... | |
| William Crooke - 1906 - 568 sider
...that fringe the water, where the wild beasts repair to drink ; its dykes, mainly shaped out of the spurs from the hills, are thrown athwart the hollows,...part only being formed by masonry ; its sluices often consists of chasms or fissures in the rock ; its broad surface is often, as the monsoon approaches,... | |
| William Crooke - 1906 - 594 sider
...forests that fringe the water, where the wild beasts repair to drink; its dykes, mainly shaped out of the spurs from the hills, are thrown athwart the hollows,...part only being formed by masonry; its sluices often consists of chasms or fissures in the rock; its broad surface is often, as the monsoon approaches,... | |
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