. Imperial India; an artist's journals. British subaltern, though condemned, and rightly, by I found, then, on applying for conveyance from Jhelum(where the railway ends) to Rawal Pindee, that I could not get agharry for two days; and there was another delay in prospectbetween Rawal Pindee and Murree, my next station. It was onlyon the 20th that I started by the evening train, and safely reachedJhelum at 4 on the 21st. There I took dak gharryy and aftermuch talking and delay, started at five. As I drove out of the dakbungalow, the east was just beginning to show signs of comin
. Imperial India; an artist's journals. British subaltern, though condemned, and rightly, by I found, then, on applying for conveyance from Jhelum(where the railway ends) to Rawal Pindee, that I could not get agharry for two days; and there was another delay in prospectbetween Rawal Pindee and Murree, my next station. It was onlyon the 20th that I started by the evening train, and safely reachedJhelum at 4 on the 21st. There I took dak gharryy and aftermuch talking and delay, started at five. As I drove out of the dakbungalow, the east was just beginning to show signs of comingday. It was a limpid barley-sugary effect, but wonderfully striking,for I saw the sun rise behind the Himalaya (a long A, if youplease) for the first time. There they were, the famous moun-tains—blue against the early dawn—sharp cut, as though allthose jagged peaks were equally distant, while the foot hills(considerable mountains anywhere else) showed a darker blue,and the foreground was a sea of yellowing corn, with here and 200. Auth/ars T0tde> shemrrv 75 Thf Figures denote tlie lieiifht above the> Seu. ititJtoiiJttuuls, tJuis 21 means 21,000 feet;and 9-7 means Figures in small typeTefer to Smnmits, those in Inrqer type to Valleys; those in hniekets (18-3) to positions oriloimtain Summits and Passes are shown Irv dots .. Scale 2,027. 520. (32 Miles to 1 bichj Earflish Stai\ite Miles. lO 5 () xgU 30 30 40 RAWAL PINDEE.—MURREE. 201 there a dark tree in the distance. It was a simple harmony ofcolour, one of those things that every artist has essayed ; but fordelicacy of tone and wonderful limpidity, I never saw anythingto match it. Meanwhile, the sunrise quickening, one or two thinstreaks of cloud shine golden on the delicate yellow. The distantsnow-peaks are gradually fused in the glowing sky, becoming anextraordinary tender yellow lilac; and then, bright and hot, upleaps the sun! Gradually, before the car of Suraj, the abode of theGods di
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