The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1875-04-15
Cashmere.

II is only eighty miles in length and
twenty or thirty in breadth, and forms a
kind of upland park surrounded by tall
and snow-clad mountains. Fifteen
thousand feet high on one side of the
Valley the gigantic rampant rises like a
wall of stone, scarcely broken by 2
ravine; the other side is lined with
clusters of peaks, billowy like the snowy
Alps. Through the copses and forests
of the valley the river Jhelum enters at
one end, passes through its whole length,
widens into a lovely lake and at last
bursts down the declivities to join tie
distant Indus. On its banks are situated
the city of Cashmere and several others
less renowned, and the bright, clear
waters of the lakes and rivers lend 10
the landscape an unequaled charm. On
each side of the valley lesser wales ope2
into the mountains, beginning in the
bright vegetation of a temperate climate
and rising at last, herbless and treeless,
to regions of perpetual snow. But to
the rare natural beauties of the happy
vale art has added its most graceful
decorations The Great Moguls from
age to age have made it their favorite
summer retreat. Shah Jehan and Au-
rungZebe lavished their treasures to
complete its perfection. Stately avenues
of trees, noble groves and graceful gar
dens, palaces, summer-houses and pleas
ant paths mark the rural tastes of the
lords of Delhi, and the city of Cash
mere springs from the waters of the
Jhelum like another Venice covered by
the foliage of its ancient trees. The
climate is temperate, we are told, like
that OF Central New York, the fruits
and flowers like our own; wheat, tobac-
CO, the peach, apricot, apple, grape
flourish in the happy valley; the sides Of
its hills in June are white with profu-
sion of roses and their perfume fills the
air; some rise like great pillars of bios
SONS and Others, creeping from tree TO
tree, festoon the woods with gar
lands of the queen of flowers. The
roses of Cashmere are usually white.
The vail forms the natural SAM
tartuzn of HinGostan and in the sum-
mer months is filed with throngs
of English, who encamp in tents upon
its grassy lawns, since hotels are I'M
known to the Cashmerians, and having
worn away the hot season in various
pastimes are required by the Maharajah
to leave his dominions at its close. Nc
foreigner is permitted to stay all winter
in the valley. 1t seems the English sold
Cashmere to native chief for no large
sum, ano ave now to lament that they
SO imprudently parted with the most
healthful and faiIest of their possessions
and an easy pathway to the uplands of
Thibet
The people of Cashmere are not alto
gether unworthy of the bright scene
around them. Children of the mountains
and Of temperate climate, they have
preserved an energy unknown to the
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tyranny exactions and plumber have noi |
destroyed their industry or their intelli- |
gence, and various ruins of ancient tenn |
pes scattered through the vale recall |
lhe i&bors of happier age. One OF |
them the Martund, grand, massive, mag
innocent, rises on rock like the Parthe- |
non, IL the midst of one of the fairest of |
earthly scenes, and looks down upon the |
whole length and breadth Of the valley.
The city OF Cashmere is pierced, like
Venice, with numerous canals; its build