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Golden Tips: A Description of Ceylon and Its Great Tea Industry Henry W B 1854 Cave No preview available - 2015 |
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acres ADAM'S PEAK Admiralty House Agra amongst appearance attracted Badulla bamboo banks beautiful bungalows cacao Ceylon tea climate coach coast cocoanut Colombo coolies cultivation curious Dimbula distance district Dutch elephant entrance European extent factory famous ferns flowers forest fruit Galle Gampola gardens golf Hakgalla harbour height hills hundred illustration interest island Jaffna journey jungle Kandy Kandyan Kelani Valley labour lake land landscape large number leaf leaves lofty lovely luxury magnificent Maskeliya Mátalé Matara miles mountain Nanu Oya native notice Nuwara Eliya palms pass patana Peradeniya photograph picture picturesque plains planting plucking province Pussellawa putting green railway Rambodde reach rest-house river road rock Royal Mail RUANWELLA Saami sacred scene scenery seen side Singhalese sport steep stem stream Street stretches Tamil Tarshish tea estates Temple thousand feet town traveller tree ferns trees Trincomali tropical Udapussellawa village visitor wild yards
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Page 127 - 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 87 - The whole leafspread 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 (see plate 365).
Page 87 - ... 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 442 - 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 316 - The natives, on their part, never met us boldly and fairly in the field ; they had recourse to stratagems of every kind, and took every possible advantage of the difficult nature of their country, and of their minute knowledge of the ground. They would way-lay our parties, and fire on them from inaccessible heights, or from the ambush of an impenetrable jungle ; they would line the paths through which we had to march with snares of different kinds, — such as springguns and spring-bows, deep pits,...
Page 320 - Though officiallv treated with respect, it was only officially ; a common soldier passed a proud Kandyan chief with as little attention as he would a fellow of the lowest caste. Thus they considered themselves degraded and shorn of their splendour. " The people in general had similar feelings on this score ; at least, the respectable and most considerable portion of the population, viz., the Goewanse part.
Page 386 - ... from the horizon, and appears of an inky hue, so dense that the distant hills look less solid than the advancing curtain of clouds. The plains seem lost in dull shadows, and the mountains are lighted with a lurid gleam of dusky red that escapes from the open part of the heavens. Every second this clear space, with its pale, cold blue sky, is visibly contracted by dark swollen masses of vapour, which are gradually subduing the sickly lights that linger on the highest pinnacles. At first, during...
Page 445 - Solomon, and Tarshish, which lay in the track between the Arabian Gulf and Ophir, is recognisable in the great emporium of Ceylon. The ships intended for the voyage were built by Solomon at ' Ezion-geber on the shores of the Red Sea,' the rowers coasted along the shores of Arabia and the Persian Gulf, headed by an east wind.
Page 86 - 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.
Page 236 - 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...