gangotri

Updated: July 7, 2026

Of places inaccessible to which pilgrims toil, some are the sources of rivers, like Gangotri, whence springs the Ganges: others are islands, such as the Îles de Lérins off Cannes, Iona and Lindisfarne, or many off the West coast of Ireland: or distant headlands, like the Spanish Finisterre, or Rameshwaram, the extreme southern cape of the Indian peninsula.

P. S. (Percy Stafford) Allen - The Age of Erasmus: Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London