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Rh brance of Europeans with whom they had formerly been acquainted. Beyond that he would traverse Gorakhpur, till he sighted the belt of jungle that fringes the base of the Himálaya. Reverting to the western portion of his territories, he would cross the Ganges into Rohilkhand, where the country at once becomes more diversified and the races of men more interesting. He would not at this winter-tide proceed northwards to Kumáun, for there the alpine character of the country forbids marching in state. But he would assuredly turn westwards to Hardwár to study the head-works of that system of irrigation canals which, then inchoate, was destined to become the finest of its kind in the world. Proceeding homewards to his headquarters at Agra, he would pass through the Delhi territory and also halt at the imperial city. With historic imagination he would realize the fate of successive dynasties, leaving their mark one after another on the land of their adoption by structures which, though in decay or ruin, still serve to discriminate each epoch from the others. These noble relics seem to have once had a depressing effect on his father, then wrapt in the contemplation of things sacred. But to the son they are infinitely suggestive of ideas relating to the social evolution from century to century of the people now under his charge. He causes surveys to be made so that the steps and stages of their history may be better understood, and particularly that the old water-courses, canals and fountains may be discerned. It is indeed