An Account of a Journey in Kashmir by David Lockhart Robertson Lorimer and Letters from Emily Overend Lorimer to her Parents sent from Bahrain and Kerman [‎323r] (663/1291)

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projecting an eighth of an Inch or less hationd the lastuntil at
last the dome Is coranlete; hut -hat povrer on earth heepe it
safe It Is hard to see. The hulld all their domed roofs here
in defiance of probaoiliUes and they defy wind and weather
and even earthquahes through hundreds of years !
This tvroer must do very old, no one lias any Idea of the date, nor
of the purpose for shich it was built; it was probably a mausol
eum. It la lighted by ooor and window openings In each of Its
eight sides, you can see right through two opposite pairs In the phot
and by a round hole in the top of the dome, which you would have
thought would be the la: t straw to its s- curlty. it Is an unterestli
ing building and very lofty and Impressive when you ere inside
the views out through all its doorways with tho distances framed in
the openings ere very attractive, it often forms the goal of
our shorter walks. _ _
But the ohoto omits the hole glory of the scene. Benin?
the tower more than filling the Mahun Gap rises the huge mass of
Jupa, covered from top to base with snow. Unhappily in the
bright light, it has merged into the bright sky, showing once more
how Photographs can lie. , -.4 ++^
Round v;e walk into Bay No. 3 and cross through a beautiful lltte
"pass” into Bay Ho. 3 , which as we have been steadily mounting up
lies some 5£ or 60feot below. From II Photo 5*.
I). The peeo through our little pass out into the immense expanse
of Bay 3." The plain looks Just like a great sand-eea with the
’’Black Rock" rising laland-wle^ then the range of "jagged hills"
rr ith their two perky little peaks. This range is sometimes a
deeo brown, sometimes a bright navy-blue, and behind it is tne
big barrier if paler ice-blue mountains, with snow still lying in
ands on it where its f ce is not too steep t retain It. The
barrier must rise to $ 9000 or 10,000 feet. The 'oreground
rocks are every variation of sa 2 id“oolour and sepi*. The photo
dwarfs oruellv the actual grandeur of these great mountains which
fill the ye completely. The colours you mtst fill in for yourselve
and all the glorious range of colour-change tht the mountains take
in varying lights and at ouncet. The golf-course skirts away rounl
the base of the hills to the right, but is not an item in the landscp
At III. having turned homewards vre cries an outlying spur through
a tiny little'pass that looks half as if it were man's handiwork.
Here I took Photo E looking back into Bay 5 from which we were
just passing.
)> jg. Through the gap in the rock walls you catch a glimpse of the
hills that bound Bay 3 . The disreputable human object in the
cowboy hat you may recognise.
The other Photos re:
F. taken one day in the garden when our fie ds '■ere flooded after
sowing the corn. Ths boy is moving off with his spade to
regelate the flow by opening or closing passages in the little
mud dykes. ^
G. The bst comes last. This was taken from the roof od the
Earing!stan lokking away Northwards to the two ranges of hills.
The forground up to the wall is our own g rden; the "lake" is our
neighbour's flooded fields. The trees are not yet in leaf but
near it; you can see a couple of fruit trees in bloom.