Davis County Clipper | 1919-10-17 | Page 6 | Dame Nature's Little Joke

DAME NATURES LITTLE JOKE old lady seems seem to have played favorite in arranging some climatic conditions condition nature plays a cruel joke in the daf difference of altitude of india and tibet nad 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 who nho comes from the north because while india averages only perhaps feet above sea cw level tibet averages feet and for this reason Is called the roof hoot of the world now had india had this elevation south of ate he mighty range of the himalayas and thus shielded from the north as well as nearer to the equator her climate would probably have bac ape as temperate as britain and one of the healthiest in the world while had bad tibet lain as low as india instead of being the dreariest drea riest most inhospitable of lands it would by reason of 0 its latitude be one of the most habitable countries in the world