Ceylon: An Account of the Island Physical, Historical and Topographical, with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities, and Productions, Volume 1 |
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... Batticaloa . The extent of country drained by these latter streams is little short of thirteen thousand square miles . Very few of the rivers of Ceylon are navigable , and these only by canoes and flat - bottomed paddy boats , which ...
... Batticaloa . The extent of country drained by these latter streams is little short of thirteen thousand square miles . Very few of the rivers of Ceylon are navigable , and these only by canoes and flat - bottomed paddy boats , which ...
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... BATTICALOA At the mouths of the rivers the bars thus created generally follow the direction of the current , and the material deposited being dried and partially consolidated in the intervals between the tides , long embankments are ...
... BATTICALOA At the mouths of the rivers the bars thus created generally follow the direction of the current , and the material deposited being dried and partially consolidated in the intervals between the tides , long embankments are ...
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... Batticaloa , and a number of other places north and south of Trincomalie . MANA OYA NEGOMBO REDOM BO LAKE MAMARAGA WELLA CANAL NUTWALL On the west coast embankments of this kind , although frequent are less conspicuous than on the east ...
... Batticaloa , and a number of other places north and south of Trincomalie . MANA OYA NEGOMBO REDOM BO LAKE MAMARAGA WELLA CANAL NUTWALL On the west coast embankments of this kind , although frequent are less conspicuous than on the east ...
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... Batticaloa and Calpentyn . To the present day these latter gulfs are navigable for small craft . On the eastern side of the island one of them forms the harbour of Bat- ticaloa , and on the western those of Chilaw and Negombo are bays ...
... Batticaloa and Calpentyn . To the present day these latter gulfs are navigable for small craft . On the eastern side of the island one of them forms the harbour of Bat- ticaloa , and on the western those of Chilaw and Negombo are bays ...
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... Batticaloa . At Calpentyn , on the western coast , a like formation has been taken ad- vantage of for the same purpose . At Jaffna somewhat similar peculiarities of soil and locality have been seized on for this promising cultivation ...
... Batticaloa . At Calpentyn , on the western coast , a like formation has been taken ad- vantage of for the same purpose . At Jaffna somewhat similar peculiarities of soil and locality have been seized on for this promising cultivation ...
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abundance Adam's Peak amongst Anarajapoora Anim appearance Batticaloa beauty birds Blyth Boisd branches Brug Buddha Buddhist century Ceylon Chemn Chilaw climate coast cobra coco-nut Colombo colour comalie Conch Cram creature dagoba described ditto Dohrn early European exhibit Fabr feet fish flowers forests frequently fruit gneiss Gray ground Guén Hagen heat Helic hills Hist Horsf Hübn Icon India insects island Jaffna jungle Kandy Kandyan Kelaart king land larvæ Latr Layard Leach leaves Linn low country Mahawanso Malabar Méth moisture Monog monsoon mountains natives Neura-ellia Niet northern palm Pasc peculiar period Pfeiff plants Point Pedro portion Proc Rajaratnacari Rajavali Reeve remarkable resembling rivers rocks sand season seen shells shore Singhalese soil species stem Steph Syst tanks temperature temples tion trees Trincomalie TURNOUR'S vegetation Vert wanderoo Westw whilst Wijayo wind wood Zool
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