Page:Younghusband - Kashmir.pdf/136

 94 ‘THE VALLEYS AND PLACES OF INTEREST

homely geniality of earthly life; and the remem- brance of it still lies fresh upon my memory. .

GaNnGaBAaL LAKE

About forty miles from Srinagar, and lying at the foot of the great peak Haramokh, is the remarkable Gangabal Lake. It is reached by a steep pull of 4000 feet from the Sind valley. By the side of the path rushes a clear, ice-cold stream, From the top of the rise are superb views precipitously down to the Wangat valley leading up from the Sind and beyond it to a jagged range of spires and pinnacles. ‘The path then leads over rolling downs, covered in summer with ranunculus and primulas, to a chain of torquoise and ice-green lakes, above which grimly towers the massive Haramokh six thousand feet above the water, and giving birth to voluminous glistening glaciers which roll down to the water's edge.

It is a silent, solitary, and impressive spot, and is held in some reverence by the Hindus,

Tue Lotas

The Lolab is the western end of the vale of Kashmir, and is remarkable rather for the homely