The empire of India . heir brilliancy upondesolation, and there is no such contrast as in the Alpsis afforded by the near proximity of forests and theabodes of men. Towards the western extremity of the range a drive of200 miles through the mountains conducts us into the Valeof Kashmir, where the deposits of the river Jhelum,dammed by a rocky barrier, have filled a broad valleywith rich soil. Carpeted with crops and flowers, adornedwith noble trees, brightened by lakes, and circled roundby snow mountains it presents a vision of Paradise to thetraveller from the plains. In the days of the Moghal
The empire of India . heir brilliancy upondesolation, and there is no such contrast as in the Alpsis afforded by the near proximity of forests and theabodes of men. Towards the western extremity of the range a drive of200 miles through the mountains conducts us into the Valeof Kashmir, where the deposits of the river Jhelum,dammed by a rocky barrier, have filled a broad valleywith rich soil. Carpeted with crops and flowers, adornedwith noble trees, brightened by lakes, and circled roundby snow mountains it presents a vision of Paradise to thetraveller from the plains. In the days of the Moghalempire Kashmir was a favourite summer resort of theemperor and his court. To the British a cool retreat fromthe scorched plains was still more attractive ; and theyhave established, along the crest of the outer Himalayas,a chain of hill stations, the best known of which are Simla,Naini Tal, and Darjeeling. Up to a height of at least 8,000 feet the Himalayas areinhabited by as large a population as they can support. 13. HIMALAYAN PEOPLES Littk can be grown without irrigation. Rivers are care-fully led over their valley beds, and not a stream fallsfrom the hillside but a village lies beside it, conducting itswaters down the fields that are terraced on the of Nepdl the hill people are mostly Hindus, withregular features, and complexions lighter than one noticesin the plains. The women are often exceedingly Nepdl the character of the population changes. Itsinhabitants exhibit the broad faces, high cheek-bones,and oblique eyes of the Mongolian type. From amongstthem are drawn the Gurkhas who enlist very freely in theIndian army and powerfully add to its fighting of Nepdl the Mongolian type continues. Whetherof Indian or Mongolian type, the people of the hills aregenerally of much shorter stature than those of theplains ; and this is also the case with their cattle. At either end of the Himalayas there is an abrupt changein the trend of the mou
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