ISBN: 9781155133034

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1841 Excerpt: ...nor rugged. The valley has here a gentle slope, and rises sufficiently for this spot to command an extensive prospect of the whole plain of Kashmir, watered by the Behut, and bounded by the blue mountains beyond the Wular lake. Although the spring of Vira-nag is considered sometimes as the source of the Behut, yet that character appears to belong more properly to the eastern branch, which, rising by two heads, comes from the mountains in the direction of east half-south, ten kos distant. At Shahabad we were told of a wonderful cave in the hills to the west, at the bottom of which flowed a rill, forming some way within the cave a bath in a reservoir constructed of stone. In the winter the ice that was here formed was changed, it was said, to solid crystal on being brought into the air. The origin of this last story was, no doubt,.the formation of stalactites; the rest of the account we undertook to verify, and on our return proceeded to ascend the face of the mountains on our left. On the way we crossed a considerable rivulet coming from the hills. Bannahal, across the same ridge, was about seven kos distant by a crooked path. This place is included in the Subah of Kashmir, but seems rather to belong to the hill districts, as no pass of consequence separates it from the Panjab. Farther on we passed three springs, supplying a small brook, a feeder of the Behut, and crossing this, we ascended the lower slope of the-hills, continuing for some way on the Bannahal road. Here we found the prangos growing abundantly, but the peasants were ignorant of its value aswinter provender for their cattle: they applied it, however, to other purposes of more equivocal benefit. Water, in which the plant had been steeped, they asserted destroyed snails, and the root rubbed on t... William Moorcroft, Books, History, Travels in the Himalayan provinces of Hindustan; and the Panjab, in Ladakh and Kashmir, in Peshawar, Kabul, Kunduz, and Bokhara Books>History, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 115513303X

[EAN: 9781155133034], Neubuch, [PU: RareBooksClub], WILLIAM MOORCROFT,WORLD, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 92 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.2in.This historic book ma… Mehr…

[EAN: 9781155133034], Neubuch, [PU: RareBooksClub], WILLIAM MOORCROFT,WORLD, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 92 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.2in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1841 Excerpt: . . . nor rugged. The valley has here a gentle slope, and rises sufficiently for this spot to command an extensive prospect of the whole plain of Kashmir, watered by the Behut, and bounded by the blue mountains beyond the Wular lake. Although the spring of Vira-nag is considered sometimes as the source of the Behut, yet that character appears to belong more properly to the eastern branch, which, rising by two heads, comes from the mountains in the direction of east half-south, ten kos distant. At Shahabad we were told of a wonderful cave in the hills to the west, at the bottom of which flowed a rill, forming some way within the cave a bath in a reservoir constructed of stone. In the winter the ice that was here formed was changed, it was said, to solid crystal on being brought into the air. The origin of this last story was, no doubt, . the formation of stalactites; the rest of the account we undertook to verify, and on our return proceeded to ascend the face of the mountains on our left. On the way we crossed a considerable rivulet coming from the hills. Bannahal, across the same ridge, was about seven kos distant by a crooked path. This place is included in the Subah of Kashmir, but seems rather to belong to the hill districts, as no pass of consequence separates it from the Panjab. Farther on we passed three springs, supplying a small brook, a feeder of the Behut, and crossing this, we ascended the lower slope of the-hills, continuing for some way on the Bannahal road. Here we found the prangos growing abundantly, but the peasants were ignorant of its value aswinter provender for their cattle: they applied it, however, to other purposes of more equivocal benefit. Water, in which the plant had been steeped, they asserted destroyed snails, and the root rubbed on t. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN.<

2007, ISBN: 115513303X

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2012, ISBN: 115513303X

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ISBN: 115513303X

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