Intimate glimpses of life in India; a narrative of observations, educational, social, and religious, in the winter of 1899-1900 . into its depthsa full mile below. On the left hand, on the slopesof the Hill and in the cup-shaped valley at its foot,nestled, picturesquely, the village of Darjeeling. Infront of us, not far away, was an enormous gulf,the bottom of which appeared smoothly paved withthe tops of the clouds colored as though underthe moonlight; and up through them broke the crestsof mountains that were 15,000 ft. and 16,000 , and some of them higher still. But these werenot The
Intimate glimpses of life in India; a narrative of observations, educational, social, and religious, in the winter of 1899-1900 . into its depthsa full mile below. On the left hand, on the slopesof the Hill and in the cup-shaped valley at its foot,nestled, picturesquely, the village of Darjeeling. Infront of us, not far away, was an enormous gulf,the bottom of which appeared smoothly paved withthe tops of the clouds colored as though underthe moonlight; and up through them broke the crestsof mountains that were 15,000 ft. and 16,000 , and some of them higher still. But these werenot The Snows. The range entitled in a specialway to be named Himachal, the snowy, for morethan a hundred miles in a line somewhat diagonaland at distances varying from about thirty milesto more than eighty miles, rose on our Western hori-zon to unparalleled heights, as though determined tosupport or rival Kin chin janga, their chief, in itsenormous bulk and altitude of more than 28,000feet. And since it was January, and the snows haddescended to their lower seasonable level, theregreeted our wondering eyes a hundred miles of such. Glorious Darjeeling 129 lofty mountains with a snow-abode, or snow-field, having a depth by perpendicular measurementof from 5,000 to more than 15,000 feet. As we surmounted the crest of the Hill, andstood panting with the exertion, that happened whichwe had come thousands of miles cherishing the hopeto see happen; the sun tipped its rim over the East-ern hills and covered all this vast snow-abode withcolor of rose. For twenty minutes more we watched the variedplay of rising mists, snowy mountains recoveringfrom their morning blush and turning a dazzlingwhite, and changing cloud-effects; and then a veilwas drawn over the whole. We went back, by thesame path but by no means so fast as we had come,to drink our morning cup of tea by a hospitablefire. Then once more the heavens smiled and threwoff their veil of clouds. Since the mountain couldbe seen from the m
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