The History of British India

The method of catching and training elephants with all its ingenious contrivances was related by the Greeks almost as exactly as it is in the account of the modern practice in the Asiatic Researches.' During the splendid periods of the Commonwealth and until the last decline of the Empire Rome and her more properous ancicivilized provinces wereveryfamiliarwith the silks brocades fine mu [...] It turned the trade of Hindustan and the Deckan into a new channel depriving the Venetians the Genoese and other states or peoples of the advantages they had derived front it so long as it had been carried on by the Persian Gulf the Bed Sea across Persia and Asia Minor or across Egypt and the isthmus of Suez and thence by the Mediterranean to the European; shores. [...] At the beginning of the tenth century of our era or about seventy years before the conquest of England by the Normans Sultan Mahmoud of Ghuzni who is universally regarded as the first Mahometan conqueror of Hindustan acquired by the sword and by many battles and massacres nearly the whole of the country from the Indus to the Ganges. [...] The union of the clashing interests of the two Companies the tranquillity and commercial prosperity which the peace of Utrecht brought to England and the greater part of Europe continued to raise the value of the British settlMents in the East and to encourage the Company in seeking an extension of dominion. [...] a; However questionable the means by which it was otained the possession of Devi Cottah was of vast importance to the Company : it was advantageously situated by the bank of the Coleroon on the Coromandel coast ; the channel of the Coleroon under the town was capable of receiving ships of.