PANORAMA OF THE BIMALAYAH MOUNTAINS.
By ascending the steeps of Mr. Burford's "upper circle," in Leicester Square, the -visiter finds himself amid the heights of the Himalayahs. The scene is one of the finest that can be conceived. You are pitched in the midst of a great mountain region, half-way up: on one side soars above you, in the distance, a vast amphitheatre of snow-clad alps; around are the middle heights, some clothed with vegetation, others crag as bare as if the earth had been scraped to its bones; on the opposite side the plains of Hindustan stretch away in fineless distance. The catalogue points out where you may descry Simla, and many more places rendered illustrious by the history of the recent campaigns: but the transitory associations of human contest cannot divert the attention from the primaeval elements of the scene—those bright and varied mountains, those eternal alps, those boundless plains—with the great Ganges, and the Jumna, and the Sutlej, winding away on their unceasing travels. In one coup d'ceil you have around you the gigantic elements of a continent. The picture is beauti- fully painted. The varied tints and endless changes of form which enliven the mountain scenery are, as it were, created to the view in all the vivid- ness of nature. A mere superficial glance will not detect all that there is in the picture: as if it were reality, an opera-glass—the telescope of the adventurous Londoner—will be found to fetch out new beauties in the dis- tant parts.
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