Campbell, the superintendent of Darjeeling, and Sir Joseph Hooker, resulted in the stoppage of the allowance granted to the raja for the cession of the hill station of Darjeeling, and in the annexation of the Sikkim tarai at the foot of the hills and of a portion of the hills beyond.
Feudalism died hard, but since 1860 has been practically extinct; and so far as the Maronites own a chief of their own people it is the "Patriarch of Antioch and the whole East," who resides at Bkerkeh near Beirut in winter, and at a hill station (Bdiman or Raifun) in summer.
Cameron Highlands At an altitude of about 1,500 m (4,950 ft ), Malaysia's best-known hill station is delightfully refreshing.
Cameron Highlands At an altitude of about 1,500 m (4,950 ft), Malaysia 's best-known hill station is delightfully refreshing.
A view from the Signal Hill Station looking in a southerly direction over the western side of Cape Town toward Devil 's Peak.
