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Tuesday, 15 January 2008

Colonial luxury

ON BEING GIVEN PATE IN THE HIMALAYA: An income of 100,000 Francs diminishes distance in a singular manner, & exercises the action of a sucking pump on all the good things of Europe, raising them to a height of 7 or 8 thousand feet above the level of the sea

Victor Jacquemont: Letters from India 1834
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