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KURSALEE-p.8.
Kursalee is an Indian village near the source of the Jumna, on the south side of the great snowy peaks of Jumnoutri, seen from Saharunpoor, and estimated at 25,000 feet above the level of the sea. The building in the centre of the engraving is a Hindoo temple, built entirely of wood, and ornamented with elaborate carved work: the outer area surrounding it is paved with thick slate, the inner with granite. The snow in the Jumnoutri mountains endures eternally; sometimes concealing the stream of the Jumna for a breadth of sixty yards, and often found in detached masses forty feet in thickness.
