Excerpt from Travels in the Himalayan Provinces of Hindustan and the Panjab; In Ladakh and Kashmir; In Peshawar, Kabul, Kunduz, and Bokhara, Vol. 1 of 2 The practical illustration of Geographical Science has at no period been prosecuted in this country with more unremitting diligence than in the pre sent day. Travellers and tourists of all descrip tions follow hard upon every change in the social condition or political relations of those countries with which we have long been familiar, whilst those of more adventurous spirit, or more ambi tious pretensions, undertake to make known to us the character of man, and the features of nature, in the least frequented and least civilized parts of the earth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.