 | Edward Randolph Emerson - Alcoholic beverages - 1908 - 582 pages
...authority on questions relating to the island, opens his valuable volumes on Ceylon in these glowing terms: Ceylon, from whatever direction it is approached,...melancholy delta of the Ganges and the torrid coast Coromandel, or the adventurer from Europe recently inured to the sands of Egypt and the scorched headlands... | |
 | John William Balding - Missions - 1922 - 320 pages
...merchants and adventurers of Holland and by the travellers and topographers of Great Britain. . . . Ceylon, from whatever direction it is approached, unfolds a scene of loveliness and grandeur unsurpasssd, if it be rivalled, by any lind in the universe. The traveller from Bengal, leaving bshind... | |
 | Anuradha Seneviratna, Benjamin Polk - Architecture - 1992 - 168 pages
...the island was pronounced (and spelt) Ceylon when James Emerson Tennant sailed to Sri Lanka in 1845: "Ceylon, from whatever direction it is approached...unfolds a scene of loveliness and grandeur unsurpassed by any land in the universe. The traveller... or the adventurer from Europe, recently inured to the... | |
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Ceylon, from -whatever direction it is approached, unfolds a scene of loveliness and grandeur unsurpassed, if it be rivalled, by any land in the universe. 
