. The Indian empire: history, topography, geology, climate, population, chief cities and provinces; tributary and protected states; military power and resources; religion, education, crime; land tenures; staple products; government, finance, and commerce . 3 M M THE INDIAN EMPIRE ILLUSTRATED. 27 poultry; and travellers must bring sheep with them for food, or be content to live on fishand game, both of which are exceedingly abundant. Many of tlie views of mountain scenery which open as the footpaths wind roundprojecting points, are magnificently sublime. The high ledges of the rock are thehaunt
. The Indian empire: history, topography, geology, climate, population, chief cities and provinces; tributary and protected states; military power and resources; religion, education, crime; land tenures; staple products; government, finance, and commerce . 3 M M THE INDIAN EMPIRE ILLUSTRATED. 27 poultry; and travellers must bring sheep with them for food, or be content to live on fishand game, both of which are exceedingly abundant. Many of tlie views of mountain scenery which open as the footpaths wind roundprojecting points, are magnificently sublime. The high ledges of the rock are thehaunts of the chamois, and eagles have their eyries on hoary peaks, inaccessible tothe depredations of man. Ghurwal is celebrated for a peculiar breed of ponies, called ghoouts^—rough, stunted, and shaggy, but exceedingly sure-footed, and well adapted tocarry a traveller in safety along the dizzy verge of narrow pathways, from which the eyeendeavours in vain to penetrate the darkness of the abyss below. GRASS-ROPE BRIDGE AT TEREE. The village of Teree, in the province of Ghurwal, is a small and insignificant place,distinguished only by the romantic scenery that surrounds it, and its bridge, which,suspended in mid-air, throws a graceful festoon over th
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