India this side of the Ganges

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• GANGES —    the great sacred river of India, which, though somewhat shorter than the Indus, drains a larger area and traverses a more fertile basin; it has its source in an ice cave on the southern side of the Himalayas, 8 m. above Gangotri, at an… …   The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

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