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I viewed with interest a country on which European foot had never trod, and my eye ranged over bleak hills enclosing fertile valleys, into which torrents first flung themselves wildly, then, flowing sedately through to the other end, dashed away again behind rocks and hills and jumbled masses of broken country, which must have afforded magnificent scenery as it gradually swelled into the towering mountains of the Emodus.
Though the Himalaya mountains have been known from the earliest historic times for they are the Imaus and Emodus of the ancient writers it is only within the present century that we in Europe have obtained any definite knowledge of them.
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