 | Joseph Dalton Hooker - 1854 - 536 pagina’s
...Sikkim, thus circumscribed, consists of a mass of mountainous spurs, forest-clad up to 12,000 feet ; there are no flat valleys or plains in the whole country,...precipices of any consequence below that elevation, and few or no bare slopes, though the latter are uniformly steep. The aspect of Sikkim can only be... | |
 | William Wilson Hunter - 1876 - 470 pagina’s
...thus circumscribed, consists of a mass of mountainous spurs, forest-clad up to twelve thousand feet. There are no flat valleys or plains in the whole country,...precipices of any consequence below that elevation, and few or no bare slopes, although the latter are uniformly steep. . . . Viewed from a distance on... | |
 | Sir Richard Temple - 1887 - 366 pagina’s
...summits, Sikkim is a Ian 6^ of extraordinary beauty. Sir Joseph Hooker, who went all over it, says, " There are no flat valleys or plains in the whole country, no lakes or procipices of any consequence below^l 2,000 feet, and few or no bare1 slopes, although the latter are... | |
 | Newman, W. & Co., publishers - 1900 - 168 pagina’s
...then south-west to Kanchinjanga, forming the watershed of all the remote sources of the Teesta. This spur has a mean elevation of from 18,000 to 19,000...are no flat valleys or plains in the whole country, * Except Mount Everest, in the Nepal Hills, which has an altitude of 29,002 feet. Dr. Hooker wrote... | |
 | Joseph Dalton Hooker, Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker - 1905 - 664 pagina’s
...Sikkim, thus circumscribed, consists of a mass of mountainous spurs, forest-clad up to 12,000 feet ; there are no flat valleys or plains in the whole country,...precipices of any consequence below that elevation, and few or no bare slopes, though the latter are uniformly steep. The aspect of Sikkim can only be... | |
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Tsampu, or Tibetan Burrampooter, but into the Arun of Nepal. which rises to the north of Donkia, and flows southwest for many miles in Tibet, before entering Nepal and flowing south to the Ganges. Sikkim, thus circumscribed, consists of a mass of mountainous... 
