THE NARBADA VALLEY 



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makes lier first plunge into tlie mighty rift ; and there is 

 no difficulty in dreaming away the best part of a day in 

 the contemplation of this marvellous ^ scene of beauty. 

 The only drawback to the peaceful enjoyment of the 



GORGE IN THE NAEBADA. THE MAEBLE ROCKS. {From a Photograph.) 



scene is the presence of numerous colonies of bees, whose 

 combs are to be seen attached to most of the jutting 

 ledges of the rocks on the left bank. In cold weather 



^ A fiend in human shape has perpetrated a pun, in the visitors' 

 book kept at the little rest-house above the clifi, wldch will here be 

 sufficiently obvious. 



