Schlagintweit, Hermann von; Schlagintweit, Adolf; Schlagintweit, Robert von: Results of a scientific mission to India and High Asia: undertaken between the years MDCCCLIV and MDCCCLVIII, by order of the court of directors of the hon. East India Company (Band 4): Meteorology of India: an analysis of the physical conditions of India, the Himálaya, western Tibet, and Turkistan (Leipzig, 1866)

GROUP III: KULU, CHAMBA,
LAHOL, KASHMIR, MARRI, IN THE HIMALAYA.

Sultanpur.—Kangra; Dalhousie.—Kardong.—Srinager.—Marri.

As we proceed to the north-west the Himalayan climate shows alterations not
unlike the difference between Hindostan and the Panjab; the variation of the tem-
perature within the early period becomes greater, and on an average the rains decrease
in intensity and duration, though for the very outer ranges they remain still heavy
enough.

As the country the most characteristic for the central region, and at the same
time the most pleasant to begin with, I name Kashmir.1 In reference to climate it
can be considered one of the spots of the globe certainly most convenient to any
type of human races, being mild and not too hot.

The charms of the spring of Kashmir have become widely spread already by
Indian poetry; summer, even up to the middle of June, is still fresh all night, the
mornings being as low as 60° to 63° Fahr., the mean of the day is 70° to 75° Fahr.;
only about 6 weeks of July and August, a period sufficient for the maturation of
delicious fruit and most precious crops, have an average temperature equal to that of
the southern parts of France. Thunder-storms in summer are not unfrequent,

1 Concerning its advantages as a Sanitarium see p. 471.

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