From Calcutta to the Snowy Range; Being the Narrative of a trip through the Upper Provinces of India to the Himalayas Containing an Account of Monghyr Benares Allahabad Cawnpore Lucknow Agra Delhi and Simla

This Book containing the record of a Winter Tour through the upper Provinces of India to the Himalayas is placed before the Public in the hope that the historical interest of the scenes described and the peculiarity of the method of Indian as compared with English travel may secure for it a perusal which will be of profit to the general reader. [...] The night's rest passed in the railway-carriage is considerably improved by the addition to the carriage-cushion of your resai and pillow while in the rug you have a very necessary protection in the winter months from the cold night-air the teperature after sundown being totally out of comparison with what one might suppose it would be judging from that of the day. [...] The force of the storm was more immediately expended in and near Calcutta sinking and stranding 150 noble vessels and all the small craft of the river ; levelling beyond hope of restoration the glorious century-old giants in the Botanical Gardens and Barrackpore Park — the like of which we can hardly hope to see again and reducing the appearance of Calcutta to that of a city after a bombardm [...] In some of the springs the water is so hot as to render painful the immersion of the hand ; and as the myriad gaseous bubbles rise sparkling to the surface emitting each its tiny column of vapour the effect is at once peculiar and striking. [...] On the summit of the Madhoray Ghttt and above the mass of buildings by which it is surounded rises the great Mosque of Aurungzebe built over the site of the temple of Bindo Madhub to signalize the triumph of Islam over Brahminism."The Mosque of Aurungzebe.