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Updated: June 23, 2025
Thus it is next to impossible to keep an estate in a high state of cultivation, without an enormous expense in the constant application of manure. Many estates are peculiarly subject to landslips, which are likewise produced by the violence of the rains.
The luggage arrived in Srinagar towards the end of the month. Sunday morning saw us again battling with a perfect coruscation of landslips; so "jumpy" was it in many places that we sat with the carriage doors ajar, in hopes that a timely dart out might enable us to evade a falling rock.
Landslips occur daily during the rainy season; streams of rich mud pour down the valley's slopes, and as the river flows beneath in a swollen torrent, the friable banks topple down into the stream and dissolve. The Atbara becomes the thickness of pea-soup, as its muddy waters steadily perform the duty they have fulfilled from age to age.
This bending over of the lodes is always towards the face of the hill, and is, I think, produced by successive small landslips. It is evident that if carried still further than in the case shown in the diagram, the lode would be brought down over the face of the hill, and the result has, I think, been achieved in some places, and a regular "Manto" produced.
Immense veins of granite permeated the rocks, which were crumpled in the strangest manner: isolated angular blocks of schist had been taken up by the granite in a fluid state, and remained imbedded in it. The road made great ascents to avoid landslips, and to surmount the enormous piles of debris which encumber this valley more than any other.
Landslips have caused the isolation of Lake George and altered the watershed of the whole country to the south. Later on Taylor will deal with the effects of ice and lead us to the formation of the scenery of our own region, and so we shall have much to discuss. Sunday, May 7. Daylight now is very short. One wonders why the Hut Point party does not come.
Paul speaks so slightingly of "times and seasons and Sabbaths," does he mean that the worship and meditation belonging to such seasons were valueless? No; he is rather saying, "How can you think that our Father values, not the lilies, but only the fact of their growing on this or that bit of earth?" Every day, landslips are altering the features of God's great garden this present world.
In many places we had great difficulty in proceeding, the track being obliterated by the rains, torrents, and landslips.
Not only the windows and the roof were rattling then, but all the walls, and I was like one in a great drum. When the rain was doing its utmost, I heard no other sound; but when the lull came, there was the wash of a heavy river, or a crack as of artillery that told of landslips, or the plaintive cry of the peesweep as it rose in the air, trying to entice the waters away from its nest.
These landslips are sometimes followed, at the return of the tide, by a further fall, called a 'settlement. The word 'settlement' explains itself, perhaps.
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