Golden Tips: A Description of Ceylon and Its Great Tea Industry |
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acres Adam's Bridge ADAM'S PEAK ADMIRALTY HOUSE Agra Agra district amongst appearance attracted Badulla bamboo banks beautiful bungalow bushes Ceylon tea climate coach cocoanut coffee Colombo coolies cultivation curious Dimbula distance district Dutch elephant European extent factory fields flowers forest Galle Gampola gardens golf Hakgalla harbour height hills hundred illustration island Jaffna journey jungle Kandy Kandyan Kelani Valley labour lake land landscape large number leaf leaves lofty luxury magnificent Maskeliya Mátalé miles mountain Nanu Oya native notice Nuwara Eliya palms pass patana Pekoe Peradeniya photograph picture picturesque plains planting plucking precipitous PRISONERS-OF-WAR province Pussellawa putting green railway Rambodde ravines reach rest-house river road rock Royal Mail RUANWELLA Saami sacred scene scenery seen side Singhalese sport spot steep stem stream Tamil Tamil coolie tea estates thousand feet town traveller tree ferns trees Trincomali tropical Udapussellawa village visitor wild yards
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Page 129 - In this island there is a very high mountain, so rocky and precipitous that the ascent to the top is impracticable, as it is said, excepting by the assistance of iron chains employed for that purpose. By means of these -some persons attain the summit, where the tomb of Adam, our first parent, is reported to be found. Such is the account .given by the Saracens.
Page 89 - The whole leaf-spread is round almost like a circle, but being cut in pieces for use are near like unto a triangle ; they lay them upon their heads as they travel, with the peaked end foremost, which is convenient to make their way through the boughs and thickets.
Page 66 - In a park at the foot of this acclivity is the pavilion of the governor, one of the most agreeable edifices in India, not less for the beauty of its architecture than for its judicious adaptation to the climate. The walls and columns are covered with chunam, prepared from calcined shells, which in whiteness and polish rivals the purity of marble. The high ground immediately behind is included in the demesne, and so successfully have the elegancies of landscape gardening been combined with the wildness...
Page 89 - ... convenient to make their way through the boughs and thickets. When the sun is vehement hot they use them to shade themselves from the heat ; soldiers all carry them, for besides the benefit of keeping them dry in case it rain upon the march, these leaves make their tents to lie under in the night. A marvellous mercy, which Almighty God hath 'bestowed upon this poor and naked people in this rainy country."* The fernery is one of the most beautiful spots in the garden, and has been planned with...
Page 444 - The shore is gemmed with flowers, the hills behind are draped with forests of perennial green ; and far in the distance rises the zone of purple hills, above which towers the sacred mountain of Adam's Peak, with its summit enveloped in clouds. But the interest of the place is not confined to the mere loveliness of its scenery. Galle is by far the most venerable emporium of foreign trade, now existing in the universe...
Page 448 - ... apes is the same in both languages, and the Sanskrit " ibha '' ivory, is identical with the Tamil " ibam" " Thus by geographical position, by indigenous productions, and by the fact of its having been from time immemorial the resort of merchant ships from Egypt, Arabia, and Persia on the one side, and India, Java, and China on the other, Galle seems to present a combination of every particular essential to determine the problem so long undecided in biblical dialectics, and thus to present data...
Page 448 - Thus by geographical position, by indigenous productions, and by the fact of its having been from time immemorial the resort of merchant ships from Egypt, Arabia, and Persia on the one side, and India, Java, and China on the other, Galle seems to present a combination of every particular essential to determine the problem so long undecided in biblical dialectics, and to establish its own identity with the Tarshish of the sacred historians, the mart so long frequented by the ships of Tyre and Judea.
Page 136 - No other mountain," wrote Sir Emerson Tennent, " presents the same unobstructed view over land and sea. Around it to the north and east the traveller looks down on the zone of lofty hills that encircle the Kandyan kingdom, whilst to the westward the eye is carried far over undulated plains, threaded by rivers like cords of silver, till in the purple distance the glitter of the sunbeams on the sea marks the line of the Indian Ocean.
Page 238 - 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 over the ground, it must abound here more than in any other part of the island. Reasoning...
Page 88 - The first is the tallipot; it is as big and tall as a ship's mast, and very straight, bearing only leaves: which are of great use and benefit to this people; one single leaf being so broad and large, that it will cover some fifteen or twenty men, and keep them dry when it rains.