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also very costly for its size ; and the arrangement 

 is not very good ; but, nevertheless, it is a useful 

 guide-book. Armed with these three recently pub- 

 lished volumes, the visitor to Kashmir is supplied 

 with all the information which an ordinary traveller 

 requires in going through a strange country ; but 

 their maps are not satisfactory, and he will do well 

 to supply himself with the five mile to the inch 

 sheets of the ' Trigonometrical Survey.' The anti- 

 quarian may consult Cunningham's 'Ancient Geo- 

 graphy of India,' published in London in 1871, and 

 Lieutenant Cole's ' Illustrations of Ancient Buildings 

 in Kashmir.' For the sportsman there are 'Brink- 

 man's Rifle in Kashmir,' and several other books, 

 more or less of a light character. Bernier, the first of 

 all the European travellers in Kashmir since possibly 

 Marco Polo, is exceedingly good ; Jacquemont's 

 Letters are graphic and amusing, though full of 

 insane vanity ; and Moorcroft gathered himself 

 much more information regarding the country 

 than almost any other traveller has done, for 

 Elmslie may almost be regarded as having been a 

 resident. 



At Pandrathan, not far up the Jhelam from Srin- 

 agar, we came upon the site of an ancient capital of 

 the Kashmir valley, and on a very ruinous old temple 

 situated in the middle of a tank, or rather pond. 

 The name of this place affords an excellent example 

 of the present state of our knowledge of Kashmir 



