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Travels in Ceylon Ans Continental India
Author: HoffmeisterTravels in Ceylon and Continental India
Author: Werner HoffmeisterPublisher: Рипол Классик
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Pages : 560
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Travels in Ceylon and Continental India
Author: Werner HoffmeisterPublisher: Palala Press
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Travels in Ceylon and Continental India
Author: Werner HoffmeisterTravels in Ceylon and Continental Indi
Author: Werner HoffmeisterPublisher:
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Travels in Ceylon and Continental India
Author: W. Hoffmeister (M.D.)Travels in Ceylon and Continental India; including Nepal and other parts of the Himalayas to the borders of Thibet. With some notices of the Overland Route. Appendices. ... Translated from the German. [With a preface by C. Ritter, and a memoir of the author by A. Hoffmeister.].
![Travels in Ceylon and Continental India; including Nepal and other parts of the Himalayas to the borders of Thibet. With some notices of the Overland Route. Appendices. ... Translated from the German. [With a preface by C. Ritter, and a memoir of the author by A. Hoffmeister.]. PDF](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/sIVrPgAACAAJ?fife=w80-h100)
Author: Werner HoffmeisterTravels in Ceylon and Continental India
Author: Travels in Ceylon and Continental India
Author: Travels in Ceylon and Continental India; Including Nepal and Other Parts of the Himalayas, to the Borders of Thibet, with Some Notices of the Overland
Author: Werner HoffmeisterPublisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230280226
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Pages : 166
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1848 edition. Excerpt: ... leave Nepaul in its independence.--Tr. we immediately ascended the steep mountain to the sanctuary. The umbrageous forest soon came to an end, and the heat became most oppressive, until, at the end of an hour's climb, we gained the summit and the temple that crowns it. According to a rough estimate, its elevation above the vale of the river may be between three and four thousand feet. This mountain is no solitary peak, but rather the last and the most pointed summit of a ridge which rises to a much greater height, and stretches far towards the north, --the Mahamendel. Two separate shrines are situated on this hill of Noyakot; the lower one, the access to which is by means of a flight of steps somewhat exceeding one hundred in number, is the larger of the two, and contains a multitude of strange and grotesque figures of animals: it is rich in wood-carvings and votive offerings, weapons and vessels formed of metals of every sort, but the whole is filthy beyond description. The upper one is much smaller, built almost entirely of brick, and devoid of all ornament: the low story of wood, on its plain and lofty substructure, is the only part adorned with beautiful carved windows, and displays, as does also the roof, considerable taste. Between the two sanctuaries stands the Durbar, a royal palace of small size and built of brick, but singular and striking in its appearance, and surrounded by pleasuregrounds dignified with the name of gardens. The magnificent view of the valley of the Trisoolgunga is the best reward which this mountain offers to those who scale its heights; and its temple structures, with their gilded roofs, form an incomparable foreground. But, alas! the beautiful valley and the city that lay at our feet, were objects..