4€ WESTERN HINDOOSTAN. 



Gazelles, aiid Mnfks. The approach to Capmere is alfo very 

 rugged and difFicalt. We have mentioned the mountains of 

 Bember ; befides thofe is one on which the pioneers of Aurenge- 

 :zebe were obliged to cut through a glaciere, or a great mafs, 

 as Bernier calls it, of icy fnow*. 



The capital of this happy fpot is fometimes called Ca/Jjmere, 

 fometimes Sirinagur^ and fometimes Nagazi, is feated in 

 Lat. 34° 12' North, on the banks of the river, which runs with 

 a current moft remarkably fmooth. At a little diftance from it 

 is a fmall but beautiful lake, with a communication with the 

 river by a navigable canal. The town was, in Bernief'S, time, 

 three quarters of a French league long, built on both fides, and 

 fome part extended to the lake. Villas, Mofques, and Pagodas, 

 decorate feveral of the little hills that border the water. The 

 houfes are built of wood, four ftories high, fome higher; the 

 lower is for the cattle, the next for the family, the third and 

 fourth ferve as w\irehoufes. The roofs are planted with tulips, 

 which in the fpring produce a wonderful eifecl;. Rofes, and 

 numberlefs other flowers ornament this happy clime. The 

 inhabitants often vifit the lake in their boats for the pleafure 

 of hawking, the country abounding with cranes, and variety 

 of game. 

 V, The river, which rifes at Wat?' Nai^, near the fouthern part of 



KivER Behut, ' <^ '• 



OR Ihlum. the furrounding mountains, flows with a north-weftern courfe 

 by the capital, and falls into lake Oullery which is fifty-three 

 miles in length, and lies in the northern part of the valley, not 

 remote from the kingdom of great Tbi-bet, then pafies through 

 the outlet at Barehmooleh^ between two fteep mountains, and 



* P. 103. t B^ Chercfiddin, in his Life of Timur Bee, ii. 96. 



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