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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), D. (search)
diadems Lie scattered in his ruinous path; His bloodhounds he adorns with gems Torr from the violated necks Of many a young and loved sultana; Maidens within their pure zenana, Priests in the very fane he slaughters, And chokes up with the glittering wrecks Of golden shrines the sacred waters of the Ganges, of course. It must not be understood, however, that he failed to strip off the gold before he pitched these things into the muddy waters of the river, which delivers yearly into the Bay of Bengal 534,600,000 tons of solid matter. Mahmoud, about 1024, after desolating Northern India for some years, came to Somnauth, and — omitting the details — plundered from the Temple of Siva the destroyer the rich offerings of centuries, carrying them and the doors of the temple to Afghanistan, where the latter were made the doors of his tomb. Here they rested till 1842, when the English, stung to madness by the massacre of 26,000 soldiers and camp followers in the Kyber pass, in the mont
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), R. (search)
This was even exceeded in the experience of the naturalist Hooker, who observed in some of the valleys of the Himalaya a fall of 470 inches in seven months, and 30 inches on one occasion in four hours, equal to the average annual rainfall in France. This was at Khasia, where, according to Mr. Yule, in the month of August, 1841, there fell 264 inches, or 22 feet; 30 inches falling daily during five successive days. This is attributable to the abruptness of the mountains which face the Bay of Bengal, from which they are separated by 200 miles of Jheels and Sunderbunds. This fall is very local: at Silhet, not thirty miles farther south, it is under 100 inches; at Gowahatty, north of the Khasia, in Assam, it is about 80; and even on the hills twenty miles inland from Churra itself, the fall is reduced to 200. During the rainy season, from April to November, as much as 10 or 12 inches of rain falls in a day in Burmah and Siam. The enormous rainfall of Khasia would, however, se