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Description: | This building was ereacted as a way of recording the height of the floodwaters in Dhaka during the monsoon season. It sits in the middle of a pool, surrounded on three sides by a brick terrace, with its fourth side open to a watercourse, or nullah. The pool was used by small boats as a shelter during storms. James Atkinson's descriptive text is sceptical about the accuracy of this "Ganges-ometer". In the foreground are the ruins of a footbridge.
This etching is taken from plate 18 of Charles D'Oyly's 'Antiquites of Dacca'. | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Publisher: | Landseer, John (1769-1852) | Rights holder: | British Library | Subjects: | Rivers Bridges Cartography And Topography Transport Infrastructure Science And Technology Architecture Rivers and waterways | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | D'Oyly, Sir Charles (1781-1845) | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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