Eleven Years in Ceylon: Comprising Sketches of the Field Sports and Natural History of that Colony, and an Account of Its History and Antiquities, Part 5, Volume 1R. Bentley, 1841 |
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Abhaa Adam's Peak Adikar amongst ancient animal Anooraadhapoora Anuradhapoora appeared ascend Avisavellé Bahoo Batticaloa British Buddhist called capital Ceylon chiefs Cingalese history cocoa-nut trees Colombo commenced cultivated dágoba Dambool death district Eheylapola escape Europeans favour feet fired forest Gampola Gautama Buddha Government ground Hangwellé head height hundred India inhabitants inscriptions island jungle Kandian country Kandy Kellania killed King Kurunaigalla labour land length Mahasen Major Davie Malay maritime provinces Mátalé ment miles Minneria Modeliar mountain native party passed path persons Pilámé Taláwe pillars Polannarrua Pollonnaroowa poora priest proceeded provinces Raja Singha Ramayan Ratnapoora Reigned relic religion remains rest-house Rhodias rice river road Robert Brownrigg rock royal ruins sacred Samanala Sangatissa seen side Sir Edward Barnes situated soon sovereign spot stone tank temple thick throne tion Tissa tom-toms Trinkomalee Turnour tusks Vijeya village Vishnu wild Wilmot Horton wood worship
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Page 337 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening
Page 151 - Uprear'd of human hands. Come and compare Columns and idol-dwellings, Goth or Greek, With Nature's realms of worship, earth and air, Nor fix on fond abodes to circumscribe thy prayer.
Page 349 - ... the last stage of individual depravity and wickedness, the obliteration of every trace of conscience, and the complete extinction of human feeling. In the deplorable fate of the wife and children of Eheylapola Adikar, these assertions are fully substantiated; in which was exhibited the savage scene of four infant children, the youngest torn from the mother's breast, cruelly butchered, and their heads bruised in a mortar by the hands of their parent, succeeded by the execution of the woman herself,...
Page 293 - Whether prompted by their own feelings, or impelled by more weighty reasons to attend at this exhibition, still the relic was evidently an object of intense veneration to all the assembled Buddhists, and by those of the Kandian provinces it is considered the palladium of their country ; they also believe the sovereign power of the island is attached to its possessors. It is a piece of discoloured ivory, slightly curved, nearly two inches in length, and one inch in diameter at the base ; from thence...
Page 180 - Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below, LXIII.
Page 165 - Rocks rich in gems, and mountains big with mines, That on the high equator ridgy rise, Whence many a bursting stream auriferous plays : Majestic woods, of every vigorous green, Stage above stage, high waving o'er the hills : Or to the far horizon wide diffus'd, A boundless deep immensity of shade.
Page 251 - When he is ready to ascend, he gives a jerk to the rope, and the person who holds the other end of it, hauls it up as speedily as possible. The diver, at the same time, free of every incumbrance, warps up by the rope, and always gets above water a considerable time before the basket.
Page 358 - Spyes, that there is but little done, which he knows not of. And often he gives Command to expel all the women out of the City, not one to remain. But by little and little when they think his wrath is appeas'd, they do creep in again.
Page 210 - Here and there, by the side of this river, there is a world of hewn stone pillars, standing upright ; and other heaps of hewn stones, which I suppose formerly were buildings. And in three or four places, are the ruins of bridges, built of stone ; some remains of them yet standing upon stone pillars.
Page 294 - The largest or outside cover of these carandus (caskets) is five feet in height, formed of silver gilt, and shaped in the form of a dagoba : : the same form is preserved in the five inner cases, which are of gold ; two of them, moreover, being inlaid with rubies and other precious stones. The outer case is decorated with many gold ornaments and jewels, which have been offered to the relic, and serve to embellish its shrine.