Historical and descriptive account of British India, from the most remote period to the present time : including a narrative of the early Portuguese and English voyages, the revolutions in the Mogul Empire, and the origin, progress, and establishment of the British power ; with illustrations of the zoology, botany, climate, geology, and mineralogy. Also medical observations, - an account of the Hindoo astronomy - the trigometrical surveys, - and the navigation of the Indian seas