A system of modern geography : for schools, academies, and families : designed to answer the twofold purpose of a correct guide to the student, and of a geographical reading book . doostanee, Mahratta, and Tamul. HINDOOSTAN. PART SECOND. A great proportion of the population of this country, hasbeen for nearly a hundred years, in some degree, subject to theBritish East India Company. The principal British possessionsin Hindoostan, are in the north-eastern and southern embrace in all a territory of 514,000 square miles in Governor General of British India is stationed a
A system of modern geography : for schools, academies, and families : designed to answer the twofold purpose of a correct guide to the student, and of a geographical reading book . doostanee, Mahratta, and Tamul. HINDOOSTAN. PART SECOND. A great proportion of the population of this country, hasbeen for nearly a hundred years, in some degree, subject to theBritish East India Company. The principal British possessionsin Hindoostan, are in the north-eastern and southern embrace in all a territory of 514,000 square miles in Governor General of British India is stationed at Calcutta,in Bengal. .There is also a President at Madras, and another atBombay, to govern the British dominions in those than 80 millions of people in Hindoostan are real subjectsof the English government. The rest of the population, particu-larly in the central and north-western parts, is governed byMohammedan or native chiefs, who are tributary to the EastIndia Company, or, in some measure, dependent upon it. Some of the principal cities of Hindoostan, are Calcutta,Madras, Delhi, Patna, Benares, Bombay, Surat, Goa, Pondi-cherw and Golconda. 236 View of Calmitfa. Calcutta, the capital of British India, is situated on the eastbank of the Hoogly, an outlet of the Ganges, about 100 milesfrom the sea. It is the grand emporium of commerce for theEast Indies, and is resorted to by merchants of all dwellings of the English residing here are splendid as thepalaces of kings, and strikingly contrasted with the innumera-ble, low, mud huts of the natives. Population 500,000. Madras, on the coast of Coromandel, is situated on a flat,sandy shore. The soil in its vicinity is not fertile. The harboris very bad. Fort George is a strong fortress. The public build-ings are magnificent. This city is the capital of the British pos-sessions in this region. Several Christian missionaries are sta-tioned here. Population 400,000. Delhi, on the Jumna, was the fo
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