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distinctive lineaments are maintained. Hills dissolve 

 into gentle slopes, and platforms of table land and 

 valleys become convulsed and upheaved, so as no 

 longer to be distinguished from the ridges which 

 environ them." 



THE CHUMBA OR SNOWY RAXGE. 



" The colossal range of mountains which bounds 

 Kangra to the North, deserves more than this pass- 

 ing description. Although the direction of this 

 range is in general conformity to that of the lower 

 hills, yet the altitude is so vastly superior, and the 

 structure so distinct, as to require a separate notice. 

 In other parts of the Himalaya, the effect of the 

 snowy mountains is softened, if not injured, by in- 

 termediate ranges, and the mind is gradually pre- 

 pared by a rising succession of hills, for the stu- 

 pendous heights which terminate the scene. But in 

 Kangra there is nothing to intercept the view. The 

 lower hills appear, by comparison, like ripples on 

 the surface of the sea, and the eye rests, uninter- 

 rupted, on a chain of mountains which attain an 

 absolute elevation of 13,000 feet above the valleys 

 spread out at their base." 



" I know no spot in the Himalaya, which for 

 beauty or grandeur, can compete with the Kangra 

 valley, and these over-shadowing hills. No scenery, 

 in my opinion, presents such sublime and delightful 

 contrasts. Below lies the plain, a picture of rural 

 loveliness and repose. The surface is covered with 



