Excerpt from History of India: From the Earliest Times to 1880Poets have never wearied of singing the delights of this region, of extolling the verdure of its hill sides, and praising the roses of its vales while Cashmerean beauty has become a proverb. The fairy-like descriptions of this land have received considerable modification from the reports of modern travellers still it would be difficult to find a spot which nature has more richly endowed with her gifts than this Himalayan vale.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.