ghauts

America in its fresh-water lakes, and India in its hot humid lowlands, jungles, ghauts, and cool highland plains.

A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004

Bengal, and other places of less note, his remarks upon which we shall not stay to quote, reached the ghauts of Calcutta in safety.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. Various

That unhappy speculator in seersuckers and castor-oil died in prison, and a _gooroo_ (that is, a spiritual teacher) feed by the Baboo, desolated his last hour with the assurance that he should transmigrate into the bodies of seven generations of _gharree_-horses, and drag _feringhee_ sailormen, in a state of beer, from the ghauts to the punch-houses, all his miserable lives.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 Various

De Candolle, has confidently ventured to question this migration theory, so imposing and formidable has been the array of names which have frowned down, like so many gigantic ghauts, upon the audacious questioner.

Life: Its True Genesis R. W. Wright

India has been to me, as the average American, a dream of terraced ghauts, of banyans and bungalows, of Taj Mahals and tigers, of sacred rivers and subterranean temples, and -- and that sort of thing.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 Various

With this force Hyder poured through the ghauts or passes, and burst like a mountain-torrent into the Carnatic.

The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr

Apostolic of Rajputana; on the west the line of the Western ghauts divides it from the Diocese of Damaun and the Archdiocese of Goa; and on the south it is contiguous with the Diocese of Mysore.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

The isolated post and fortress of Ferozepore had been reinforced by twenty-four field guns, a regiment of British Infantry, and Cavalry and Native Infantry, until a force of upwards of 7000 men composed a Corps under Major-General Sir John Littler, for the double purpose of defending Ferozepore from insult and watching the ghauts, or fords, of the Sutlej.

The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B. 1903

At each of the ghauts (a landing place or steps) variegated masses of pilgrims -- no matter how early the hour, and to see them rightly one ought to start quite by six -- are making their ablutions and deriving holiness from the yellow tide.

Roving East and Roving West 1903

From here we take a native boat and traverse the water-front to see the celebrated bathing ghauts and the strange, animated scene of pilgrims bathing, bodies burning, and swarms of people ascending and descending the broad flights of steps.

Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama Thomas Stevens 1894