Description
One of the most agreeable diversities that can occur in the life of a European resident in Hindustan, is a visit to the Hills-—the common term applied in India to the lower ranges of the Himalaya Mountains. Many are driven from the plains to try the effects of a more bracing climate for the recovery of health; but there are some to whom a love of the picturesque, and a restless desire to seek amusement in ever-varying change of scene, prove the chief incentive for a tour into the recesses of the mighty and mysterious range that forms the northern boundary of our Indian empire* The favorite and most exciting route, when undertaking such an expedition, is by Saharanpur, a frontier town of the province of Delhi (sometimes called the threshold of the hill districts), whence it is usual to penetrate through the valley of the Deyrah Dhoou, to the interior of the Himalayas, and the sources of the Jumna and the Ganges*