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A handbook for travellers in India, Burma and Ceylon; including the provinces of Bengal, Bombay, and Madras, the Punjab, North-West Provinces, ... etc., the native states Assam and Cashmere
A handbook for travellers in India Burma and Ceylon including the provinces of Bengal Bombay and Madras the Punjab NorthWest Provinces etc the native states Assam and Cashmere Author:John Murray This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt: ... The loftiest peaks behind the sanitarinm attain a height of over 9000 ft. There is very little game now to be found in the hills. Situate... more »d at convenient sites along the ridge in the direction of Abbotabad are several "Hutted Camps" for the British troops in summer. Rawal Pindi is also the startingplace for Cashmere by Murree and the Jhelum Valley. This is the best route into the country (see p. 217). Margala is passed 3 m. before reaching the station of Kala ke Sarai. On an eminence to the S. is the monument of General John Nicholson: "Erected by friends, British and native, to the memory of Brig.-Gen. John Nicholson, C.B., who, after taking a hero's part in four great wars, fell mortally wounded, in leading to victory the main column of assault at the great siege of Delhi, and died 22d September 1857, aged 34." 194 m. Kala ke Sarai sta., D.B. At 6 m. from this place is the beautiful village of Wah. 203 m. Hasan Abdal sta., D.B., famous for the so-called Lalla Rookh's tomb, which is close by; also on account of the spring of Babi Wali, or as the Sikhs call him, Panja Sahib. This is one of those attractive places to which each religion in succession has attached its legends, and it has been appropriated in turn by Buddhist, Brahman. Mohammedan, and Sikh. The shrine of this saint is on the peak of a lofty and precipitous hill, at the N.W. foot of which numerous springs of limpid water gush out of the ground and form a rill which falls into the AVah rivulet, J m. to the W. of Hasan Abdal. At the E. entrance into the town on the right hand, about J in. from the D.B., is the tomb of one o/Akbar's wives, which the ignorant people say is that of Nur Jehan. The road to it passes through roughly paved streets, aud then leads down to a clear rapi...« less