A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil

by T. R. Swinburne

Sind Desert,

Sind Valley,

Singhara, Meaning “horned nut,” the water chestnut (Trapa bispinosa). An article of diet much prized by the Kashmiri.

Sogul,

Sonamarg, “The Golden Marg.” A summer station high up the Sind Valley on the route to Leh and Ladak.

Sopor, =Sonapur, or the Golden City. A somewhat unclean little town of some 600 houses on the Jhelum, about eight miles by road and twelve by water above Baramula.

Spill Canal, Cut in 1904, after the Great Flood of 1903, to carry some of the river clear of Srinagar and ease the pressure on the bund.

Spruce, Picca, Morunda. (Kashmiri, Kachal.)

Srinagar, Surga Nagur, City of the Sun. Has a population of 120,000. Became capital in 960 A.D., when the ancient city of Pandrettan was burnt in the reign of Abimanyu. The city was called Kashmir until recently, Martand being called Sringar by Jacquemont.

Sultanpur,