 | John Davy - Sri Lanka - 1821 - 578 pages
...climate, (certainly a cool climate,) like the similar heights between Maturatta and fort M'Donald, it is quite deserted by man. It is the dominion, entirely,...of the elephant, of whom we saw innumerable traces ; indeed, judging from the great quantity of the dung of this animal which was scattered over the ground,... | |
 | Henry William Cave - Sri Lanka - 1895 - 240 pages
...fine climate (certainly a cool climate), like the similar heights between Maturata and Fort McDonald, it is quite deserted by man. It is the dominion entirely...of the elephant, of whom we saw innumerable traces. Indeed, judging from the great quantity of the dung of this animal, which was scattered over the ground,... | |
 | Henry W. Cave - Business & Economics - 1994 - 502 pages
...is of a peculiar kind, quite Alpine. The same kind of wood ramifying 236 ANCIENT IRRIGATION SYSTEM. into the table-land, and occurring scattered about...seem to demand the theory of former prosperity and immense population. Sir Samuel Baker thought that the supposed ancient importance of the place was... | |
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M'Donald, it is quite deserted by man. It is the dominion, entirely, of wild animals ; and, in an especial manner, of the elephant, of whom we saw innumerable traces ; indeed, judging from the great quantity of the dung of this animal which was scattered... 