Darjeeling, or "The Bright Spot", 1850. Creator: Unknown. Darjeeling, or "The Bright Spot", 1850. Creator: Unknown

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Darjeeling, or "The Bright Spot", 1850. Creator: Unknown. Darjeeling, or "The Bright Spot", 1850. Creator: Unknown

Darjeeling, or "The Bright Spot", 1850. Darjeeling [in India] is a sanitary station, situated 371 miles distant from Calcutta, on a ridge of the Sikkim range of the Himalaya Mountains: it commands a magnificent prospect of the snowy range, in which the lofty peak of Kunchin Jinga, said to be 27, 000 feet above the level of the sea, is very conspicuous; Darjeeling being 7218 feet...The loftiest peak [centre] is Kunchin Jinga: to the extreme right are the ruins of an ancient Buddhist monastery; and next to them, a recently erected Protestant church. The house to the left, with a gabled roof, is the residence of Colonel Lloyd; the large and lofty building to the extreme left is Wilson's Family Hotel; the long building below, to the right, is the Barracks of Sappers and Miners; to the left is a native bazaar; and in the foreground of the view are a Missionary Chapel, and two of the natives with baskets of fowls...'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850

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