Travels in Ladâk, Tartary, and Kashmir . of massive wooden folding gates, throughwhich your boat glides, is all that at first meetsthe eye; and they actually audi prosaically entrance to the lake. But away to the right,a considerable eminence, known as the Tukht-i-Soliman,* or Solomons Seat, rises from a green * The legends of the country assert that Solomon visitedthis valley, and finding it covered, except the hill on whichsome Mahommedan has dedicated a temple to King Solomon,with a noxious water which had no outlet, he opened apassage in the mountains (at Baramoula), and gave to
Travels in Ladâk, Tartary, and Kashmir . of massive wooden folding gates, throughwhich your boat glides, is all that at first meetsthe eye; and they actually audi prosaically entrance to the lake. But away to the right,a considerable eminence, known as the Tukht-i-Soliman,* or Solomons Seat, rises from a green * The legends of the country assert that Solomon visitedthis valley, and finding it covered, except the hill on whichsome Mahommedan has dedicated a temple to King Solomon,with a noxious water which had no outlet, he opened apassage in the mountains (at Baramoula), and gave to Kash-mire its beautiful plains.—Forster. On legends such as these a supposition that the Kashmirisare descendants of the Jews has been buUt—a suppositionwhich is borne out by the personal appearance of the race—their garb, the cast of their countenances, and the form ofthe beards. There is a belief, too, that Moses died in thecapital of Kashmire, and that he is buried near it. The Suliman, or Sulayman, however, of Oriental Tartary^ and Kashmir. 269 bed of gardens and orcliards, and may be said, must not be always supposed to be identical with, the sou ofDavid. No name is more famous in the East than Solomon; hesucceeded his father DaTid, according to their belief, whenonly twelve years old, at which age Omnipotence placedunder his obedience not only mankind, but even the ele-ments and the genii, good and bad. His throne was mag-nificent beyond idea —12,000 seats of gold being placedon the right for the patriarchs and prophets, and 12,000 onthe left for men learned in every science. The birds werehis constant attendants, screening him like a canopy from theinclemencies of the weather; whilst the zephyrs, wafting him•wherever he wished to go, rendered horses or any carriageunnecessary. All the wonderful traditions, however, relativeto Solomon, are not confined to the son of David. Theheroic or fabulous ages of the Persians go far beyond thoseof the Europeans
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