 | 1867 - 420 pages
...agriculture being overpaid with corn, sugar, turmeric, and almost all the Indian grains in abundance. In spring it is a vegetable emerald; and in winter...harvests look as if Ceres had stumbled against the Salt Range, and spilt half her cornucopia in this favoured vale. As if to make the landscape perfect,... | |
 | R. C. (Robert Clark) - Missions - 1883 - 274 pages
...Year on the Punjab Frontier: — In spring it is a vegetable emerald, and in winter its many colored harvests look as if Ceres had stumbled against the...Salt Range, and spilt half her cornucopia in this favored vale. Most of the fruits of Kabul are found wild, and culture would bring them to perfection.... | |
 | Robert Clark - 1885 - 412 pages
...the following account of Bunnoo from Sir Herbert Edwardes' A Year on the Punjab Frontier:— coloured harvests look as if Ceres had stumbled against the...and spilt half her cornucopia in this favoured vale. Most of the fruits of Kabul are found wild, and culture would bring to perfection. As it is, the limes,... | |
 | Edward Emmerson Oliver - Afghanistan - 1890 - 364 pages
...cantonment, has left a series of pictures of it, perfectly idyllic. " In spring," he says in one, " it is a vegetable emerald ; and in winter its many-coloured...make the landscape perfect, a graceful variety of the sheesham-tree, whose boughs droop like the willow, is found here, and here alone ; while along streams,... | |
 | Edward Emmerson Oliver - Afghanistan - 1890 - 384 pages
...cantonment, has left a series of pictures of it, perfectly idyllic. " In spring," he says in one, " it is a vegetable emerald ; and in winter its many-coloured...harvests look as if Ceres had stumbled against the Great Salt-Range, and spilt half her cornucopia in this favoured vale. As if to make the landscape perfect,... | |
 | Sir George Forrest - Generals - 1901 - 532 pages
...the fair and fertile valley of Bunnu, watered even as the garden of the Lord. In spring [he writes] it is a vegetable emerald, and in winter its many-coloured...whose boughs droop like the willow, is found here and there alone; while along streams, and round villages, the thick mulberry, festooned with the wild vine,... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1907 - 618 pages
...exactly in the latitude of Jerusalem ; this mountain valley has the climate of Lebanon and Damascus : — "In spring, it is a vegetable emerald, and in winter,...if Ceres had stumbled against the great Salt range *nd spilt half her cornucopia in this favoured vale." * * Italics mine, that you may notice the reward... | |
 | Alice Maud Pennell - Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Pakistan) - 1914 - 538 pages
...Edwardes thus describes it : " In spring it is a vegetable emerald, and in winter its many coloured harvests look as if Ceres had stumbled against the great Salt range (to the north and east), and spilt half her cornucopia in this favoured vale." But the Bannuchi is... | |
 | Alice Maud Pennell - Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Pakistan) - 1914 - 530 pages
...Edwardes thus describes it : " In spring it is a vegetable emerald, and in winter its many coloured harvests look as if Ceres had stumbled against the great Salt range (to the north and east), and spilt half her cornucopia in this favoured vale." But_the Bannuchi is... | |
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In spring it is a vegetable emerald ; and in winter its many-coloured harvests look as if Ceres had stumbled against the great Salt Range, and spilt half her cornucopia in this favoured vale. 