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Darjeeling and its Mountain Railway 1921 Hard Cover
Darjeeling and its Mountain Railway 1921
Darjeeling and its Mountain Railway 1921
A Guide and Souvenir Name On blank page see photo
Published by the Darjeeling-Himalayan Railway Co., LD.
106 Pages
Copyright 1921 ?
Contents
INTRODUCTORY I+6
TI. HISTORY OF DARJEELING8
III. THE RAILWAY...13
IV. THE JOURNEY TO DARJEELING ...19
V. DARJEELING ...44
VI. SUBURBS OF DARJEELING59
VII. EXCURSIONS ......69
VIII. THE TEESTA VALLEY ......78
IX. KALIMPONG...88
X.TEA......98.
THE traveller to the Eastern Himalayas enters upon a new tract of country as soon as he reaches Siliguri, and the pleasure and interest of the journey to Darjeeling will then be much enhanced if he is in possession of a few facts regarding the country he is about to traverse and the mighty mountain regions he is approaching.
Siliguri, the starting point of the Darjeeling-Himalayan Railway, is on the verge of the tract known as the Teraia region of forest trees and tea plantations skirting the base of the Himalayas. Beyond this narrow belt of almost level country, the Himalayas rise abruptly in range upon range of wooded mountains, culminating in the highest snowy peaks in the world and the lofty tableland of Tibet. The suddenness with which the mountain ranges rise from the plains is peculiar to this, the eastern, extremity of the Himalayas, which do not rise so steeply in the north-west of India and the Punjab.
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