Show DAME NATURES ullie JOKE old lady seems to have played fa in arranging some att ctt marlc conditions nature klavs n cruel jole in the dlf ference of altitude of india and tibet C had they been reversed one would have sold that it was a arrangement the traveler who crosses the himalayas from cashmere his to climb nearly twice as inucci as the tra eler who comes fram the north be cause while india ouli per haps feet aboe ea level tibet 4 averages feet and for this reason Is called the roof of the world now had india hid this elevation south of the mighty range of the himalayas and thus from the f north as well as nearer to the equa tor lier climate would probably have been as temperate as britain and one of alie in the world while biad tibet lain as low ns india in stead of being the dreariest drea riest most in j hospitable of lands it would by rea a son f its latitude he one of the most habitable countries in the world |