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Show DAME NATURE'S LITTLE JOKE Old Lady Seems to Have Played Favorites Fa-vorites In Arrancjlng Some Climatic Cli-matic Conditions. Nature plays a cruel joke In the dlf-, lerence of altitude of India and Tibet. Had they been reversed one would have said that It was a providential arrangement. The traveler who crosses the Himalayas from Cashmere has to climb nearly twice as much as the traveler trav-eler who comes from the north, because be-cause while India averages only perhaps per-haps 100 feet above sea level, Tibet averages 12,000 feet, and for this reason rea-son is called the Roof of the World. Now, had India had this elevation, outh of the mighty range of the Himalayas, Him-alayas, and thus shielded from the north, as well as nearer to the equator, equa-tor, her climate would probably have ooen as temperate as Britain, and one af the healthiest In the world. While had Tibet lain as low as India, Instead In-stead of being the dreariest, most inhospitable in-hospitable of lands, it would, by reason rea-son of its latitude, be one of the most labitable countries In the world. |