Hugli
Americannoun
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Prominent veterinarians visible last week in Columbus included: Dr. Hugli Max O'Rear, assistant chief of the tuberculosis eradication division of the U. S. Bureau of Animal Industry.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1778 he published a Bengali grammar, to print which he set up, at Hugli, the first press in India.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" by Various
In consequence of the silting up of the Saraswati, the river on which Satgaon was situated, the town became inaccessible to large ships, and the Portuguese settled at Hugli.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" by Various
Its water is the water of the Hugli, and its air is dirt.
From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Kipling, Rudyard
In the flats above the pilot's room are hushed and chapel-like offices, all sumptuously fitted, where Englishmen write and telephone and telegraph, and deft Babus for ever draw maps of the shifting Hugli.
From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Kipling, Rudyard
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