Sport and Life in the Further Himalaya (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt From Sport And Life In The Further Himalaya Cascading Down The Habitable Lower Lpes Are Numerous Rivulets Fed From The Snow Above. Let Us Look At The Scene From High Up The Opposite Side Of The Valley. First There Appear, Below The Snow, Tiny Threads Of Silver Winding Through Arid Slopes Of Talus. Some 5000 Feet Above The River Strips Of Light Green Appear, Little Fields Cut In Terraces In Which The Young Barley Is Just Begin Ning To Show Itself. A Few Huts Are Seen Lower Down And Some Gaunt Poplars, A Cold And Dreary Upland Country. Farther Down, The Strip Of Green Darkens In Colour And Gradually Broadens. Chest Nut, Apricot, And Other FruitBearing Trees Appear, At First Scattered, But Becoming More Numerous, Till, At The RiverS Edge, The Cultivated Fan Spreads Out To A Couple Of Miles Or More In Breadth, A Variegated Mass Of Golden Corn, Orchards, And Vine Yards, With The Little Villages Half Hidden In Foliage. Often Two Or More Of These Fans Join, Forming Bands Of Verdure Some Miles In Length. Chitral Itself Is Composed Of Several Of Such Fans Merged Into One, And Most Chitrali Villages Are Of The Same Type. In The South Of Chitral, Where The Rainfall Is Greater, The Hillsides, At Elevations Favourable To The Growth Of Conifers; Are Clothed In Pine Forests, And The Scenery Is. About The Publisher Forgotten Books Publishes Hundreds Of Thousands Of Rare And Classic Books. Find More At This Book Is A Reproduction Of An Important Historical Work. Forgotten Books Uses StateOfTheArt 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.