274, FOREST LIFE AND SPORT IN INDIA 
enjoyment after many years of continual: work, 
though the journey back to India in the heat and 
discomfort of a pause in the monsoon did much 
to efface the feeling of quiet ease that had been 
enjoyed. 
Kashmir possesses, surely, many industries that 
may be developed now that hydro-electric power 
is available. Connected with forestry is that of 
paper-pulp manufacture, which may some day prove 
remunerative to the State, for it would afford some 
means of utilizing the inferior stock of timber that 
now crowds the forest at low elevations, and pre- 
vents the progress of a better crop; it might even 
lead to the exploitation of the spruce and fir forests, 
and give an impetus to the planting of poplar 
and willow, that grow like any weed in the damp, 
fertile lands of the valley. And the more valuable 
the products of the forest area, the better will cer- 
tainly be the protection afforded to the forests, for 
they provide a source of State revenue that would 
be badly missed if it was allowed to fall off through 
want of proper supervision. 
About the valley of Kashmir many books have 
been written, and everything is known ; those who 
go there may enjoy the finest scenery in the world 
in all its variations of fertile plains, wooded moun- 
tains, and rocky desert heights, all beautified by the 
finest colouring that Nature can supply ; and at the 
same time they will have before their eyes the 
squalor, filth, and the misery of endemic diseases, 
which are more common in the temperate countries 
of the East than where burning sun and burning 
winds cleanse the land as if by fire. For enjoyment 
