The country with which one is most apt to compare it is, naturally, Switzerland.
And Switzerland, indeed, has many charms, and a combination of lake and
mountain in which, I think, it excels Kashmir. But it is built on a smaller scale.
There is not the same wide sweep of snow-clad mountains. There is no place
where one can see a complete circle of snowy mountains surrounding a plain of
anything like the length and breadth of the Kashmir valley, for the main valleys
of Switzerland are like the side valleys of Kashmir. And above everything there
is not behind Switzerland what there is at the back of Kashmir, and visible in
glimpses from the southern side,—a region of stupendous mountains surpassing
every other in the world.
Kashmir
By – Sir Younghusband Francis Edward
- PUBLISHED: 1911
- PAGES: 181