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too bad, for us to attempt to visit it. After the usual compliments 
of tea, trays of fruit were introduced, and among them abundance of 
ripe peaches. 
Taking an early dinner, we proposed a long walk towards the 
north. The hill of Wandipore is completely covered with a fine even 
turf: it has a moderate acclivity, as it increases in breadth, for about 
a mile and a half from the castle, where it joins the side of a very lofty 
mountain. We struggled some way up it, but found the task too 
arduous to attempt to reach its summit. It was totally void of large 
trees, but crowded with clusters of barberry bushes. 
We discovered snow, on Sunday the 6th of July, upon the most 
distant mountains towards the north ; but the clouds hung about them, 
and they w r ere only a short time visible. In the hollow below the 
castle, on the eastern side, was a large garden ; a situation judiciously 
chosen for its uncommonly fine shelter. We found orange, citron, 
pomegranate, peach, apple, and even mango e trees, thriving extremely 
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well. Of culinary vegetables, it boasted no great variety : there were, 
however, cucumbers, bangun d , chili e ; and it was much overrun with 
weeds. Though we varied our evenings walk, we saw few objects that 
were not familiar to us. Having been so long accustomed to the noise 
of rapid currents, and the view of lofty mountains, diversified with 
populous villages, groves, and hermitages, the repetition of such scenes 
could impart to us no pleasure, which we had not already experienced. 
On the north-east end of Wandipore hill, grew a cluster of tall fir 
trees, that had an extremely singular appearance : not a single branch 
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