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Title: The Indian empire: history, topography, geology, climate, population, chief cities and provinces; tributary and protected states; military power and resources; religion, education, crime; land tenures; staple products; government, finance, and commerce
Year: 1858 (1850s)
Authors: Martin, Robert Montgomery, 1803?-1868 Roberts, Emma, 1794?-1840
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aya—namely, that the most usual Oriental sky is often thought to be an exagge-ration when its mellow beauty is represented on canvas or paper; and yet, in reality,no painting can afford a just idea of its glory. The skies of England, though not without their charms, and producing occasionally some fine effects, do not suggest the slightest notion of this mountain hemisphere, withits extraordinary variety of colours—its green and scarlet evenings, and noon-day skies of mellow purple, edged at the horizon with a hazy straw colour. It is impossible, in fact,to travel through the Himalaya without perpetually recurring to the rich and changefulhues of its skies; every day some hitherto unnoticed state of the atmosphere producingsome new effect. This is particularly the case at dawn; for while the lower world isimmersed in the deepest shade, the splintered points of the highest ranges, which first catch the golden ray, assume a luminous appearance, flaming like crimson lamps along 1ml t. ^
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