Book excerpt: Excerpt from Our Summer in the Vale of Kashmir Want and taste. For the cultivator of the soil, there is fertility of land, abundance of water, variety and plenty of natural products, whether grain or fruits. For the herdsman, there is rich pasturage and broad meadows. The sportsman finds game in the jungles and along the mountain-sides. The fisherman finds ample use for the rod, the artist for his sketch-block and colours, the archaeologist, linguist, botanist, or geologist, may well whet their enthusiasm over the stately Buddhist ruins, the luxuriant vegetation, or the many geological problems awaiting their investigations; while they who have neither hobbies nor inclinations, who want but rest and amusement in a lovely country and pleasant climate, can take their fill of. 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.