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VIEW FROM PAGODA HILL. Chap. XVII. 



I gazed long with rapture upon the wonderful 

 scene which lay beneath and around me. Many 

 views which I have had both before and since that 

 time, when travelling in the Himalayas, have been 

 perhaps more grand and sublime, owing to the 

 stupendous height of these mountains, but as a 

 view of marvellous richness and loveliness that 

 from the top of Taou-chang-shan stands unrivalled. 



