 And while the soil bears on its surface all kinds of fruits which are known to cultivation, it has also underground numerous veins of all sorts of metals, for it contains much gold and silver, and copper and iron in no small quantity, and even tin and...  Chandragupta Maurya and His Times - Page 75by Radhakumud Mookerji - 1966 - 263 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Megasthenes - India - 1877 - 246 pages
...soil bears on its surface all kinds of fruits which are known to cultivation, it has also under ground numerous veins of all sorts of metals, for it contains...silver, and copper and iron in no small quantity, and even tin and other metals, which are employed in making articles of use and ornament, as well as... | |
 | Megasthenes - India - 1877 - 246 pages
...soil bears on its surface all kinds of fruits which are known to cultivation, it has also under ground numerous veins of all sorts of metals, for it contains...silver, and copper and iron in no small quantity, and even tin and other metals, which are employed in making articles of use and ornament, as well as... | |
 | Royal Dublin Society - Natural history - 1885 - 648 pages
...India) bears on its surface all kinds of fruits which are known to cultivation, it has also under ground numerous veins of all sorts of metals, for it contains...silver, and copper and iron in no small quantity, and even tin and other metals, which are employed in making articles of use and ornament, as well as... | |
 | Royal Geological Society of Ireland - Geology - 1886 - 386 pages
...India) bears on its surface all kinds of fruits which are known to cultivation, it has also under ground numerous veins of all sorts of metals, for it contains...silver, and copper and iron in no small quantity, and even tin and other metals, which are employed in making articles of use and ornament, as well as... | |
 | Romesh Chunder Dutt - India - 1889 - 368 pages
...expected of men who inhale a pure air and drink the very finest water." The soil, too, has "under ground numerous veins of all sorts of metals, for it contains...silver, and copper and iron, in no small quantity, and even tin and other metals, which are employed in making articles of use and ornament as well as... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1891 - 1150 pages
...pure air and drink the very finest water.' Again, regarding the soil, he says it has ' under ground numerous veins of all sorts of metals, for it contains...silver, and copper and iron in no small quantity, and even tin and other metals, which are employed in making articles of use and ornaments, as well... | |
 | Romesh Chunder Dutt - Famines - 1900 - 356 pages
...soil bears on its surface all kinds of fruits which an. known to cultivation, it has also under ground numerous veins of all sorts of metals, for it contains...silver, and copper and iron in no small quantity. and even tin and other metuls, which are employed in making articles of use and ornament, as well as... | |
 | Prafulla Chandra Ray - Chemistry - 1903 - 544 pages
...that the Indians were " well skilled in the arts." According to the Greek writer, the soil too has " underground numerous veins of all sorts of metals,...and silver, and copper and iron in no small quantity and even tin and other metals, which are employed in making articles of use and ornament, as well as... | |
 | Ramananda Chatterjee - India - 1911 - 778 pages
...bearing on the point in hand are these :— "And while the soil bears on its surface all kinds of points which are known to cultivation, it has also underground...and silver, and copper and iron in no small quantity and even tin and other metals which are employed in making articles of of use and ornament as well... | |
 | Narendra Nath Law, Radhakumud Mookerji - Administrative law - 1914 - 260 pages
...of mines. The only two passages in Megasthenes that are worthy of note in this connexion are : — " And while the soil bears on its surface all kinds...silver, and copper and iron in no small quantity, and even tin and other metals which are employed in making articles of use and ornament as well as... | |
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