Keywords: Mussoorie and Landour, 1860s.jpg Mussoorie and Landour 1860s jpg http //www bl uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/photocoll/g/019pho000000011u00082000 html General view of Mussoorie and Landour s 1860 Samuel Bourne c The British Library Board All Rights Reserved from the Original View of Mussorie and Landour taken by Samuel Bourne in the 1860s Mussorie in the Himalayas is perched on a horseshoe shaped ridge above the Doon valley at a height of 2 002 m It has been a popular hill station since the1820s when the British military officer Captain Young laid the foundations of this town Landour to the east of Musssorie connected to it by a narrow spur was a barracks and convalescence area for British soldiers Landour hill rises 273 m above Mussorie The Image is the Copyright of The British Library Mussoorie Samuel Bourne Landour Historical images of Uttarakhand India in the 1860s |