230 FOREST LIFE AND SPORT IN INDIA 
wander above the tree-level in the Harki-doon, and 
enjoy the open air of the upland meadows; or he 
may hide in the recesses of the cedar and fir forests 
at Deota, where stands the little and ancient stone 
temple in its silent glade; or he may descend to the 
forests of long-leaved pine, on the banks of the Tons 
River at Thadiar, and admire the swift stream, with 
its waters the colour: of grey-green jade, as it flows 
cold from the glaciers. And when at last he 
arrives at Deoban, the forest house that looks 
down on the military station of Chakréta and on 
the plains, he will feel regretful that a happy and 
peaceful time is over, and that he must descend 
some 8,000 feet before the time when the snow and 
storms of winter create a longing for the warmth 
of the lowlands. 
Jaunsér is especially interesting to the forester, 
because here the coniferous forests of the Himalaya 
have been most carefully exploited and protected. 
They afford evidence of what may be and should be 
done over more extensive areas, not only for the 
growth of timber, but in order to regulate the 
water-supply in the plains below. The word 
“inaccessible,” once so common in the forester’s 
vocabulary, has now almost disappeared from it; in 
the past it was applied to those areas whence there 
were no exits for timber; to-day it would be 
difficult to find localities where exits have not or 
cannot be made. Winding paths through preci- 
pices, tramways and ropeways, sledge-roads and 
water-slides, all testify to the energy of the English- 
man when living in a good climate where no 
physical exertion is too strenuous; and of these the 
