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Cascading down the habitable lower lpes are numerous rivulets fed from the snow above. Let us look at the scene from high up the opposite side of the valley. First there appear, below the snow, tiny threads of silver winding through arid slopes of talus. Some 5000 feet above the river strips of light green appear, little fields cut in terraces in which the young barley is just begin ning to show itself. A few huts are seen lower down and some gaunt poplars, a cold and dreary upland country. Farther down, the strip of green darkens in colour and gradually broadens. Chest nut, apricot, and other fruit-bearing trees appear, at first scattered, but becoming more numerous, till, at the river's edge, the cultivated fan spreads out to a couple of miles or more in breadth, a variegated mass of golden corn, orchards, and vine yards, with the little villages half hidden in foliage. Often two or more of these fans join, forming bands of verdure some miles in length. Chitral itself is composed of several of such fans merged into one, and most Chitrali villages are of the same type. In the south of Chitral, where the rainfall is greater, the hillsides, at elevations favourable to the growth of conifers; are clothed in pine forests, and the scenery is.
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- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 1330137485
- ISBN 13 9781330137482
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages470
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