India and daily life in Bengal . re the governmentof Bengal resides in summer, and where the peoplesometimes come when worn out by the heat of theplains. It is seventy-five hundred feet above the levelof the sea. The scenery here is grand beyond descrip-tion. There are broad valleys whose hillsides aredotted here and there with a village, or with primevalforests, tea plantations, or fields of potatoes and are gorges through which rushes a mountainstream, and high precipices over which leaps a water-fall. Every ravine, and gorge, and hillside producesvery beautiful ferns, moss, and l
India and daily life in Bengal . re the governmentof Bengal resides in summer, and where the peoplesometimes come when worn out by the heat of theplains. It is seventy-five hundred feet above the levelof the sea. The scenery here is grand beyond descrip-tion. There are broad valleys whose hillsides aredotted here and there with a village, or with primevalforests, tea plantations, or fields of potatoes and are gorges through which rushes a mountainstream, and high precipices over which leaps a water-fall. Every ravine, and gorge, and hillside producesvery beautiful ferns, moss, and lichens. Then themountains are around you on every side, and range ispiled upon range, until the climax is reached in Kan-chanjanga, which sends its peak up twenty-eight thou-sand feet above the sea level. On a clear day thisstands out before you, glittering in the sun like a moun-tain of burnished silver, and ten thousand feet of it canbe seen lying under its thick mantle of eternal snow—afit winding-sheet for a dead Traveling in the mountains. A dandy
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