| 1857 - 516 pages
...from the mast-head of a vessel. In fact, it might be called the " main truck" of the Sub-Himalayas. The sharp comb, or ridge, of which it is the crowning...barren peaks, a vast jumble of red mountains, divided l>y tremendous clefts and ravines, of that dark indigo hue which you sometimes see on the edge of a... | |
| the calcutta review - 1857 - 514 pages
...from the mast-head of a vessel. In fact, it might be called the " main truck" of tho Sub-Himalayas. The sharp comb, or ridge, of which it is the crowning...(parallel to the great Himalayan range,) dividing tho panorama into two hemispheres, of very different character. To the north, I looked into the wild... | |
| Bayard Taylor - 1862 - 588 pages
...truck" of the SubHimalayas. The sharp comb, or ridge, of which it is the erowning point, has a direetion of north-west to south-east (parallel to the great...ravines, of that dark indigo hue, which you sometimes see on the edge of a thunder-eloud —but in the back-ground, towering far, far above them, rose the... | |
| Charlotte Maria S. Mason - 1884 - 348 pages
...sub-Himalayas, thus describes what he saw : — "We were on the crowning point of the sub-Himalayas. To the north I looked into the wild heart of the Himalayas...vast jumble of red mountains, divided by tremendous clefts and ravines of that dark indigo hue which you sometimes see on ' the edge of a thunder-cloud,'... | |
| Bayard Taylor - 1885 - 562 pages
...from the mast-head of a vessel In fact, it might be called the " main truck " of the SubHimalayas. The sharp comb, or ridge, of which it is the crowning...vast jumble of red mountains, divided by tremendous clefts and ravines, of that dark indigo hue, which you sometimes see on the edge of a thunder-cloud... | |
| 1857 - 524 pages
...from the mast-head of a vessel. In fact, it might be called the " main truck" of the Sub-Himalayas. The sharp comb, or ridge, of which it is the crowning...vast jumble of red mountains, divided by tremendous clefts and ravines, of that dark indigo hue which you sometimes see on the edge of a thunder-cloud... | |
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