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Title: The Indian empire: history, topography, geology, climate, population, chief cities and provinces; tributary and protected states; military power and resources; religion, education, crime; land tenures; staple products; government, finance, and commerce
Year: 1858 (1850s)
Authors: Martin, Robert Montgomery, 1803?-1868 Roberts, Emma, 1794?-1840
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Publisher: London, New York : The London printing and publishing company, ltd.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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Kursalee, A Village in the Neighbourhood of Simla
rA ,S?1 B= THE INDIAN EMPIRE ILLUSTRATED. 15 ing from this elevation, a beautiful tract of forest land, of a perfectly new character,spreads out before the traveller—the trees being ash, sycamore, horse-chesnut, bamboo,and the wild pomegranate, which here grow in rich luxuriance, at the elevation of 6,867feet above the level of the sea. At a short distance from Kursalee is a celebrated hot spring, issuing from the bed ofa torrent that falls into the Jumna, at a place called Banass. This torrent bursts from the cleft of one of a range of mountains which hem in a small valley, or rather dell, and rushes down, in one unbroken volume, from a height of eighty feet. The hot spring rises from the base of an opposite mountain, and mingles its waters with those of its colder but more impetuous neighbour. The water is of scalding temperature, and willnot admit of the immersion of the hands or feet for a single moment, the thermometer standing at 144° when placed in the nearest part of the spring

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