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HURDWAR. 
TEMPLES OF MAHADEO THE GHAT. 
Following the sinuous course of the Ganges about 
fifteen hundred miles from its many mouths, the 
traveller will arrive at the boundaries of a country 
far famed for its romantic beauties and its delightful 
climate ; the valley of Dehra Dhoon. It is guarded 
on the south by the rugged mountains of the Sivalic 
range, and on the north it is shut out from the rest 
of the world by the sacred pinnacles of the cloud - 
piercing Himalas; through its unmeasured forests 
and varied undulations flow the holy streams of the 
Jumna and the Ganges, and every here and there 
the soft repose of the scene is relieved by pretty villa- 
ges dotted along the river hank, or sparkling out from 
the shady foot of some tower-crowned hill. It forms 
precisely that style of scenery which the natives (sen- 
sible of its charms and delighting to enhance them) 
select for the resort of nymphs and deities. It is com- 
