Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. Quitting Jhirree early on the 7th of May we at once struck into a charming country; the path passing through glen after glen filled with most luxuriant vegetation; the kyle (Pinus excelsa), cheel (Pinus longifolia), and deodar (Deodarus excelsa), growing thickly by the road-side, the timber of the two former particularly being more straight and lofty than is generally usual with these trees. There had been some cutting along the upper heights on the left bank of the river, which, as before mentioned, was on the whole far more densely wooded than were the elopes on the opposite side. Near Kushole village, which comes into view through a delightful vista of deodars, the road winding up through these in a series of easy steps, the scenery becomes very beautiful, for the river, after having been concealed for some little distance, here again comes into view, pouring its waters under a sungha bridge that spans the stream perhaps half a mile. further on, the lower reaches being heavily hung with masses of pine, which the sun not having yet touched were of a deep blue-purple hue; the same features of snowy range and forest-clad mountain helping, as they do all throughout the valley, to addtheir charms to the landscape " in sweet confusion blending"— " Lone Nature feels that she may safely breathe, And round us and beneath Are heard her sacred tones ; the fitful sweep Of winds across the eteep; Through withered bents—romantic note and cleat Meet for a hermit's ear— The wheeling kite's wild solitary cry, And scarcely heard so high, The dashing waters when the air is still From many a torrent rill That winds unseen beneath the shaggy fell, Tracked by the blue mist well; Such sounds as make deep silence in the heart, For thought to do her part...