Picturesque Kashmir / by Arthur Neve ; illustrated by Geoffroy W. Millais.

  • Arthur Neve
Date:
1900
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Credit: Picturesque Kashmir / by Arthur Neve ; illustrated by Geoffroy W. Millais. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    is so vividly reflected. We recall tlie lines so a[)})ro])riate to the view— Whose head in wintry grandeur towers And whitens with eternal sleet, While summer in a vale of flowers Is sleeping rosy at his feet. As a navi^rable river the Jhelam springs suddenly into existence at the east end of the valley near Islamabad, where several large mountain streams unite. The Bringh, the Sandrin. the Arpat, and the Lidar, all join within a mile of one anotlter, and form a deep and comparatively sluggish channel in which the largest size of barge or houseboat may be floated. Some of the larofest of the side streams rush out of the hillsides in full volume. The district is a limestone one, and, as is the case in the Juras of Switzerland, much of the drainage is underground. For purity and volume the springs of Vernag or Achibal may be compared with the famed source of the Orbe, which, after leaving the Lac de Joux, flows for miles underground and gushes out of the foot of a cliff at Vallorbe. The preference for picturesqueness may be given to the Kashmir springs, which are not defaced by manufactories and railways, but have been adorned by the Mogul emperors with marble tanks and conduits, summer-houses and flowery terraces, while chenar m-oves shade the irreen sward on which the o o traveller’s camp is pitched. At Vernag there is an octagonal tank of great depth. Words cannot describe the limpid opalescence of its pure
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