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HIMALA MOUNTAINS. 
The Himala Mountains are so called from the ever- 
lasting snows with which they are crowned ; the word 
signifying “palace of snow;” they are otherwise 
named by the natives Himla, Himadri, or Himachil, 
the sense of each being nearly the same. The most 
romantic descriptions which could be lavished upon 
their beauties, the most powerful pictures of the poet 
or the artist, must fall short of anything like the truth, 
in attempting to convey an idea of the stupendous and 
almost supernatural wonders of these sublime regions. 
The pen in the hand of an ordinary writer is utterly 
inadequate, is at once laid aside as soon as the wish 
to describe has been formed; the brush even of a 
skilful artist is almost as useless ; the highest flights of 
the imagination are unequal to the grand reality. To 
see, alone, is to appreciate the magnificent splendour of 
the scenery ; even memory fails to retain it ; for again 
