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streams where the wearied traveller can refresh himself hy a 

 grateful bathe — of all remedies the most sovereign to a frame 

 overheated and taxed by hard walking. 



The native dog of this district has a great resemblance 

 to the poiater, and doubtless was introduced from India. 

 Mr. Vigne * makes a similar remark with reference to the 

 dogs of the Eajawur district, south of the valley of Cash- 

 mere, where a formidable breed is also found, having the 

 external appearances of the shepherd's dog, but much larger. 

 A closely-allied form, not differing in any way from the 

 Scotch collie, is common all over the cultivated regions of the 

 Western Himalayas, and even westward to the sources of the 

 Oxus, as observed by Lieutenant Wood. This uniformity is 

 in favour of the view that the shepherd's dog forms almost a 

 permanent race, which may have been one of the original 

 varieties. 



The gray wood-shrike (Tephrodoimis pondicericma) is a 

 common tenant about the farm-houses. It resembles the 

 Indian gray shrike, but is very much smaller. 



Uri Fort is placed on a projection composed of vast accu- 

 mulations of alluvium and gravel, which must have either been 

 deposited by the Jlielum in that situation during far back geo- 

 logical periods or the result of ancient glaciers. Here the 

 Jhelum bursts through a barrier of primaiy rocks with con- 

 siderable violence, and rapidly widens out into a broad and 

 more placid river. 



The scenery around this is exceedingly beautiful ; either 

 by following the river onwards through the narrow boisterous 

 course, with its banks clad with a variety of soft and hard 

 wood trees, towards Cashmere, or in the direction of the stream, 

 across hill-sides covered with long grass and clusters of pine. 

 * Vigne's Travels in Cash/mere, vol. i. p. 231. 



