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Indian Recreations (Volume 2 )

Indian Recreations (Volume 2 )

Tennant, William

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ISBN10: 1235179591
ISBN13: 9781235179594
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.38
Height: 0.18 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1804. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... SECT. XVI. EFFECTS OF THE GANGES ON THE AGRICULTURE OF BENGAL. Ganges DEGREES Sept. 1797. Some os the disasters of Bengal are imputable to the river; sor the Ganges, though unquestionably a source of much wealth and fertility to a vast extent of country, is also at times the dispenser of mischief, and the cause of famine, the most serious calamity of Bengal. This season, from a desiciency of rain in the. upper parts of the country, the waters have not risen to their usual height; those low-lying rice fields, of whose fertility they are the principal cause, from want of their usual stimulus, are certainly deficient in crop, and serious apprehensions are begun to be entertained of the supplies for another year. A single bad season is not of itself susficient to produce a real scarcity of grain, so abundant in general are the resources of this country; but unfortunately the the very report of a defective crop sets to work all the jobbers and speculators in the country. No movement of this great river is uninteresting to the Bengalese peasantry: if when he subsides he causes distress, when he unusually overflows he is equally detrimental and tremendous. Last year, at the period in which I now write, whole districts were buried under water for several feet; and you might sail for many days over corn fields, from which the grain was either swept away or destroyed: cottages and whole villages were surrounded, and many of the native huts were laid in ruins, along with the owners, where they could not make their escape in boats. The destructive ravages of the last season were however followed by no general scarcity: the abundance of one district made up for the loss in another; and amidst the general plenty individual distress is easily overlooked, or soon forgotten. Evhn i

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