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Excerpts
from Books / Articles about Cherrapunjee and its surrounding areas
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Lieut. Henry Yule, Bengal Engineers, 1844
- Living Bridge | 2. Lieut. Henry Yule,
Bengal Engineers,1844 - On the terrain and vegetation | 3.
Lieut. Henry Yule, Bengal Engineers,1844 - On
Cherrapunjee's rainfall | 4. Lieut. Henry
Yule, Bengal Engineers, 1844 - Caves around Cherrapunjee |
5. Lieut. Henry Yule, Bengal Engineers, 1844
- On strange things / incidents at Cherra
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Lieut.
Henry Yule, Bengal Engineers, 1844 - Caves around Cherrapunjee
The formation of the limestone rocks near Cherra gives rise to a curious
phenomenon in the disappearance of streams in their hollows. Sometimes
a river vanishes in a cleft beneath a high cliff, sometimes falls headlong
into deep circular hollow and is lost to view, reminding one of the gardens
of Cambalu,
"Where Alp the sacred river ran
By caverns measureless to man
Down to sunless sea."
There
are at least four such instances in the immediate neighbourhood of Cherra.
Caves are common, as might be expected. In that a little to the east of
Pundua, at a trifling height above the plains, in company with two friends
from Cherra, I penetrated 1300 paces, without fatigue or difficulty, and
others have, I believe, gone much further. We were compelled to retreat
only by deficiency of oil. Here, says the tradition, a great army entered,
bound for the invasion of China, and were heard no more.
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