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a hundred yards square was raised above the water and smoothed. On one side of it were erected a palace and a place for the worship of God, than which no finer buildings can anywhere be found. Zain-al-Abidin used INDIAN GIRLS FROM KASHMIR. to come to this place in a boat and devote his time to the worship of Almighty God, so that it is said that he passed many periods of forty days there. Kashmir is a delightful country in the seasons of autumn and spring. I visited it in the former season and found it even more charming than I had antici-