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Show BRIGHTEST OF INDIA'S GEMS Deauty Spots That Are to Be Found In the Valleys and Uplands of Kashmir. It has been said that India Is the brightest Jewel In tho llrltlsh crown, but ono cannot ronllzo tho brightness of tho gem to tho full until one has sojourned so-journed for a space In that veritable Ircamlnnd situated In tho wedge of nountalns forming tho north center loundnry of that peninsula. No other iountry In thn world enn boast of such diversity of scenery, or Is so full of )cnuty spots ns tho valleys nnd up-nnils up-nnils of Kashmir, n writer in tho Wide (Vorld states. Snow covered moun-nlns, moun-nlns, plno clad hills, rushing torrents, ilonr streams, limpid lnkcs, nnd broad alluvial plains all combine to make up .his wonderland, which forms the sum ncr haunt of many Jaded plainsmen 'rom tho sultry cantonments of India. Df late, nlasl tho ubiquitous globe t rotor rot-or has discovered It, and his execs-live execs-live supply of cash brings higher prices, silk socks nnd whlto waist-:onts waist-:onts Into n paradise whero "boiled ihlrts" nnd other appurtenances of an jvll civilisation should never hnvo been allowed to penetrnto. |