delicately-green

Updated: June 14, 2025

To the abundance of these streams the inhabitants are indebted for the crops of waving rice which spread their delicately-green carpetting over the entire valley; the purity of the waters give to the silks the brightness of their dyes and to their shawls their fame; and from its virtues also the love-lighted eyes are supposed to derive their far-famed lustre.

William Henry Knight - Diary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and Thibet