. The Indian empire: history, topography, geology, climate, population, chief cities and provinces; tributary and protected states; military power and resources; religion, education, crime; land tenures; staple products; government, finance, and commerce . In many places the river struggles through narrow passages,formed by the angles which project into its bed; and the torrent, when circumscribed inplaces scarcely twenty feet wide, boils and foams so fearfully, that to gaze upon it causesthe brain to whirl, and sight and sense would probably fail if contemplated for manyminutes without strong
. The Indian empire: history, topography, geology, climate, population, chief cities and provinces; tributary and protected states; military power and resources; religion, education, crime; land tenures; staple products; government, finance, and commerce . In many places the river struggles through narrow passages,formed by the angles which project into its bed; and the torrent, when circumscribed inplaces scarcely twenty feet wide, boils and foams so fearfully, that to gaze upon it causesthe brain to whirl, and sight and sense would probably fail if contemplated for manyminutes without strong assurance of security. A remarkable fall of the river is shown inthe accompanying sketch, at a short distance below its source, near the point at whichit receives a very considerable tributary stream. The latter may be traced to its moun-tain birthplace, winding over the rocky platform in graceful, noiseless undulations; itsgentle murmuVings, together with those of other rivulets speeding to the same point,being lost in the roar of the Jumna, which comes raging and thundering onwards,until it falls with prodigious force into a basin it has formed in the solid rock,whence it again springs in a sea of foam, and pursues its turbulent course towards.
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