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walk or ride, had travelled about the easier portions of 

 Kashmir in a dandy carried by four porters, and was 

 far stronger and better than when she started, and 

 felt that the efforts made to leave her comfortable 

 home and invalid arrangements had been amply repaid 

 by her improved health and the pleasures of the life she 

 had led. 



Some countries only impress by their grandeur, 

 some by their charm and the grateful colour of their 

 flower-clad champaigns, while others are attractive as 

 affording scope for exploration or sport. In Kashmir 

 each of these things may be enjoyed, with the additional 

 delights of a healthy climate and friendly inhabitants. 



Therefore, to one and all who can go, I say go and 

 see for yourselves! and the harvest of happy memories 

 garnered, the wealth of pictures left in the brain of 

 sunshiny hours among the snow-crowned hills, and 

 visions of blue waters and bright flowers the treasures 

 of thought and the suggestions that will have passed 

 from the surrounding scenery into the very source of 

 our life will be an unfading pleasure, a rich reward 

 when once again we " crawl under grey skies," and are 

 choked between narrow walls and huddled in dull 

 streets. 



It is not given to man often to be completely 

 content or happy for long together, for which 

 reasons my stay in the Kashmir Valley is endowed with 

 the interest appertaining to unusual experience, an 

 experience that has left my heart full of gratitude to 

 the fates that be, for the gift of a solid block of golden 

 halo'd memories. 



