Views in India, Chiefly Among the Himalaya Mountains (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Views in India, Chiefly Among the Himalaya Mountains Runjeet Singh, in the centre of a brilliant cavalcade, composed of superb-looking men, mounted upon stately elephants or gallant steeds, and shining in all the panoply Of polished weapons, ' jewels, and gold, realizes the beau-ideal which the most vivid imagi nation can have formed of the gorgeous splendours Of an Asiatic prince.' The' scene represented in the accompanying Plate was sketched upon the' river Sutlej, near a for tified Seik town, commanding a view of the snowy peaks of the Himalaya mountains, at the distance of a hundred and twenty miles. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.