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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 143 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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DHARMSALA , a See also:

hill-station and See also:

SANATORIUM (a modern Latinism, formed from sanare, to cure, restore to health, sanus, whole, healthy, well; often wrongly spelled sanatarium or sanitarium)

sanatorium of the See also:

PUNJAB

Punjab, See also:

India, situated on a See also:

SPUR (A.S. spura, spora, related to spornan, spurnan, to kick, spurn; cf. M.H.G. sporn, mod. Ger. Sporn)

spur of the Dhaola See also:

DHAR

Dhar, 16 m. N.E. of See also:

KANGRA

Kangra See also:

TOWN

town, at an See also:

ELEVATION

elevation of some 6000 ft. Pop. (1901) 6971. The scenery of Dharmsala is of See also:

PECULIAR

peculiar grandeur. The spur on which it stands is thickly wooded with See also:

OAK (O. Eng., (lc)

oak and other trees; behind it the See also:

PINE (Lat. Pinus, Gr. srlrur)

pine-clad slopes of the See also:

mountain See also:

TOWER (Lat. turris; Fr. tour, clocker; Ital. torre; Ger. Thurm)

tower towards the jagged peaks of the higher range, See also:

SNOW (in O. Eng. sndw; a common Indo-European word; cf. in Teutonic languages, Ger. Schnee, Du. sneeuw; in Slavonic snieg', Lith. snegas; Gr. vi4a, Lat. nix, nivis, whence the Romanic forms, Ital. neve, Fr. neige, &c.; Ir. and Gael. sneachd; the original

snow-clad for See also:

HALF

half the See also:

YEAR

year; while below stretches the luxuriant cultivation of the Kangra valley. In 1855 Dharmsala was made the headquarters of the Kangra See also:

DISTRICT

district of the Punjab in See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place of Kangra, and became the centre of a See also:

EUROPEAN

European See also:

settlement and See also:

CANTONMENT (Fr. cantonnement, from cantonner, to quarter; Ger. Ortsunterkunft or Quartier)

cantonment, largely occupied by See also:

GURKHA (pronounced goorka; from Sans. gau, a cow, and raks, to protect)

Gurkha regiments. The station was destroyed by the See also:

earth-quake of See also:

APRIL

April 1905, in which 1625 persons, including 25 Europeans and 112 of the Gurkha See also:

garrison, perished (Imperial Gazetteer of India, 1908).

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