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supported in wooden frames. Being often three 

 storeys high, and in a most ruinous condition, the 

 walls present anything but straight lines, and it is a 

 marvel that many of the houses continue standing at 

 all. Some of the canals present deliciously pictur- 

 esque scenes, such as even Venice cannot boast of, 

 and the view from any of the five bridges across the 

 Jhelam is very striking ; but, as remarked, it is better 

 to leave the interior unvisited beyond floating through 

 the canals. The British Residency, and the bunga- 

 lows provided free of charge for European visitors, 

 are above the city, on the right bank of the river, 

 which here presents a noble appearance, and in a 

 splendid line of poplar-trees. A wooded island op- 

 posite them adds to the beauty of the scene. Almost 

 every place about Srinagar that one wants to go to 

 can be reached by boat, and the wearied traveller may 

 enjoy a delicious repose. 



II. 



There is one excursion from Srinagar, which can 

 easily be made in a day by boat, that is specially 

 worthy of notice, and it takes through canals and 

 through the apple-tree garden into the Dal-o City 

 Lake, and to two of the gardens and summer-houses 

 of the Mogul Emperors. I write on the shore of 

 Ulleswater, at once the grandest and most beautiful 



