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" It is sharp like a sugar-loaf, and on the top a flat stone with the print of a foot like a man's on it, but far bigger, being about two feet long. The people of this land count it meritorious to go and worship this impression; and generally about their... "
Adam's Peak: Legendary, Traditional, and Historic Notices of the Samanala ... - Page 68
by William Skeen - 1870 - 408 pages
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A Description of Ceylon, Volume 1

James Cordiner - Southeast Asia - 1807 - 510 pages
...on it, but far bigger, being about two foot long. The people of this land count it meritorious to go and worship this impression; and generally about their...children, go up this vast and high mountain to worship. Out of this mountain arise many fine rivers, which run through the land, some to the westward, some...
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A New System: Or, An Analysis of Antient Mythology ...

Jacob Bryant - Folklore and history - 1807 - 524 pages
...land count it meritorious to go and worbhip ibis impression ; and generally about the new year, the men, women, and children go up this vast and high mountain to worship. Knox. Hist, of Ceylon, p. 5. The notion of this being Adam's Pike, and the print of Adam's foot, did...
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A New System; Or, An Analysis of Antient Mythology:: Wherein an Attempt is ...

Jacob Bryant - History, Ancient - 1807 - 492 pages
...land count it meritorious to go and worship this impression ; and generally about the new year, the men, women, and children go up this vast and high mountain to worship. Knox. Hist. of Ceylon, p. 5. The notion of this being Adam's Pike, and the print of Adam's foot, did...
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The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffussion of Useful ..., Volume 1

1833 - 540 pages
...about two feet long. The people of this land count it meritorious to go and worship this iinprussion ; and generally about their new year, which is in March,...children, go up this vast and high mountain to worship. — Out of this mountain arise many fine rivers, which run through the land, some to the westward,...
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Deliciae Literariae: A New Volume of Table-talk

Joseph Robertson - Table-talk - 1840 - 290 pages
...on it, but far bigger, being about two feet long. The people of this land count it meritorious to go and worship this impression ; and generally about...go up this vast and high mountain to worship." The print of the foot is supposed to be that of Buddha, which he left when ascending to heaven. He has...
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Deliciae Literariae: A New Volume of Table-talk

Joseph Robertson - Table-talk - 1840 - 286 pages
...on it, but far bigger, being about two feet long. The people of this land count it meritorious to go and worship this impression ; and generally about...go up this vast and high mountain to worship." The print of the foot is suppose/! to be that of Buddha, which he left when ascending to heaven. He has...
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Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, Volume 9

Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1841 - 504 pages
...on it, but far bigger, being about two feet long. The people of this land count it meritorious to go and worship this impression ; and generally about their new year, which is in March, men, women, and children, go up this vast and high mountain to worship." The print of the foot is supposed...
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The New Pictorial & Illustrated Family Magazine, Established for ..., Volume 3

1846 - 544 pages
...on it, but far bigger, being about two feet long. The people of this land count it meritorious to go and worship this impression ; and generally about...children, go up this vast and high mountain to worship. Its narrow apex, which is only twentythree paces long by eighteen broad, is surrounded by a wall, in...
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The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge, Volumes 1-2

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1853 - 1034 pages
...on it, but far bigger, being about two feet long. The people of this land count it meritorious to go and worship this impression ; and generally about...go up this vast and high mountain to worship.' The print of the foot is fabled to have been left by Buddha, when ascending to heaven. Adam's Peak is about...
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Ceylon: past and present

Sir George Barrow (2d bart.) - Sri Lanka - 1857 - 220 pages
...on it, but far bigger, being about two feet long. The people of tHis land count it meritorious to go and worship this impression ; and generally about...children, go up .this vast and high mountain to worship. " It is the print of the Buddou's foot, which he left on the top of that mountain in a rock from whence...
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