A RO THROUGH KATHIAWAR. 



BY ANDREW WILSOX. 



[MAGA. AIT.., OCT., AND Xov. 1876.] 



JUXAGHAR. 



T)OMBAY, I admit, is a delightful place of resi- 

 -D dence if you can take it on the conditions 

 enjoyed by its governors, commanders-in-chief, and 

 members of council. Granted that you are at liberty 

 to spend the hot season, from the middle of March 

 till the commencement of June, in the forest shade 

 of the cool table-land of Mahabaleshwar at a height 

 of 4500 feet ; that you can pass the time from the 

 commencement of June to the end of September at 

 Poona or Xasik, on the elevated plains of the Deccan, 

 where the great rains of the south-west monsoon 

 (which at that season make Bombay like the bottom 

 of an old well) do little more than screen off the sun 

 and moisten the arid air ; that in the unhealthy season 

 of October and the commencement of November you 

 can place yourself high above the decaying vegetation 



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