Narrative of a Journey from Caunpoor to the Boorendo Pass in the Himalaya Mountains Viâ Gwalior, Agra, Delhi, and SirhindJ. Madden & Company, 1810 - Himalaya Mountains |
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Narrative of a Journey from Caunpoor to the Boorendo Pass, in the Himalaya ... William Lloyd No preview available - 2015 |
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amongst angle appearance apricots ascent baggage barometer Bekhur birches Boorendo Pass Brahmins Busahir Buspa called camp Chinese Chitkool Choor Pahar Chungsa cliffs climate crest crossed cultivated David Ochterlony Dehli dell Deodar Deotas descended distance elevation encamped Fahrenheit feet formed Garoo glen gneiss Goorka granite Gwalior half halted hamlet height hills Himala Himalaya Hindoo Jangleeg journey Jumna juniper Kooloo Koonawur Koteghur Lamas lofty Ludak Malown Manes March mass mountains Murung Naan night observed Pabur Paralasa peaks perpetual snow pines plain precipitous Pubbur Punjaub rain Rajah Rampoor reached rhododendron ridge right bank rise river road rock route sango season Seepon Semla Shatool Shipke side Sikhs Sirhind slope snow-beds snowy chain Snowy Range soil Soongnum Speetee spot steep stones stream Subahtoo summit sun-rise Sungla Sutluj Tartars temperature temple tent Theodolite thermometer to-day torrent travellers trees valley village Wartoo wind wood Yoosoo
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Page 64 - ... of life, or even life itself, when those for whom dominion, pleasure, and enjoyment were to be coveted, have abandoned life and fortune, and stand here in the field ready for the battle ? Tutors, sons, and fathers, grandsires, and grandsons, uncles...
Page 41 - I am told, was very fond of making Huli Fools, though he was a Mussulman of the highest rank. They carry the joke here...
Page 41 - Hindoos of every class, one subject of diversion is to send people on errands and expeditions that are to end in disappointment, and raise a laugh at the expense of the person sent.
Page v - Captain Alexander Gerard's Account of an Attempt to penetrate by Bekhur to Garoo, and the Lake Manasarowara.
Page 86 - The righteous, as the Mahometans are taught to believe, having surmounted the difficulties, and passed the sharp bridge above mentioned, before they enter paradise, will be refreshed by drinking at the Pond of their prophet, who describes it to be an exact square, of a month's journey in compass ; its water, which is supplied by two pipes from al...
Page 86 - They say it is situate above the seven heavens, (or in the seventh heaven,) and next under the throne of GOD ; and to express the amenity of the place, tell us that the earth of...
Page 65 - I hesitate not to pronounce the Geeta a performance of great originality ; of a sublimity of conception, reasoning, and diction, almost unequalled ; and a single exception, among all the known religions of mankind, of a theology accurately corresponding with that of the Christian dispensation, and most powerfully illustrating its fundamental doctrines.
Page 58 - As well as I can judge it is about one mile in length and half a mile in width. In the centre is an island, 235 paces in breadth, connected with the shore on each side by two ancient bridges 235 paces in length each, which, I was informed, are during the rainy season covered with the water of the flooded lake. There is a third bridge also which leads to the island, said to have been built by Aurungzebe, but it is now useless and broken. There are no temples here, but at the most hallowed spots flights...
Page 44 - May her way be attended with prosperity! May propitious breezes sprinkle, for her delight, the odoriferous dust of rich blossoms ! May pools of clear water, green with the leaves of the lotos, refresh her as she walks ; and may shady branches be her defence from the scorching sunbeams !" Sacontala, just as she was departing from the grove, turns to Cana : " Suffer me, venerable father, to address this Madhavi-creeper, whose red blossoms inflame the grove.
Page 84 - ... double : where it presents an entire sheet of foam and spray, thrown up and showered upon the surrounding rocks with loud concussion, re-echoed from bank to bank with a noise like thunder. The dell of the Tidung, at Htins, a Tartar village, is confined by towering cliffs of white granite and mica slate. The mountains in the neighbourhood...