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IV. Cb. V. P. 458), so that it is unnecessary to conjecture that the original bell on Adam's Peak may haye l)een a gift from the deyout Buddhists of China. The custom of sticking it has prevailed from time immemorial, and was described by the Portuguese, " los passageros dan golpes. " — EoDEiorES De Saa, Behel- lion de Ceylon, Lisbon, 1681, p. 17. For the subjoined plan of the sum- mit, madein 1841, 1 am indebted to Mr. Ferguson, of the Sunojor-General's Department, Colombo. He makes the area o...f the ten-ace G4 feet by 45.
a. A. A. Level spare.
b. The Pagoda.
c. Belfry.
d. D. Ri. WaW h feet high.
e. Shed fiT offerings.
/. House of tlie prie t.
g. G. The rock.
i'. The Foot-print.
o. Opening towards R;itn. Npoora.
n. Opening towards K;inily.
>n. Opening Co the well.
5 10 fo ^ 40 CiiAP. II. ] ADAM'S FEAX. MI a draught from the sacred spring, whicli runs witliin a few feet of the summit.
The panorama from the summit of Adam's Peak is, pei'haps, the grandest in the world, as no other mountain, ahhough surpassing it in aUitude, presents the same unob- structed view over land and sea.^ Around it^to the north and east, the traveller looks down on the zone of lofty hills that encircle the Kandyan kingdom, whilst to the westward the eye is carried far over undulating plains, threaded by rivers hke cords of silver, till in the purple distance the glitter of the sunbeams on the sea marks the hue of the Indian Ocean.
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IV. Cb. V. P. 458), so that it is unnecessary to conjecture that the original bell on Adam's Peak may haye l)een a gift from the deyout Buddhists of China. The custom of sticking it has prevailed from time immemorial, and was described by the Portuguese, " los passageros dan golpes. " — EoDEiorES De Saa, Behel- lion de Ceylon, Lisbon, 1681, p. 17. For the subjoined plan of the sum- mit, madein 1841, 1 am indebted to Mr. Ferguson, of the Sunojor-General's Department, Colombo. He makes the area o...f the ten-ace G4 feet by 45.
a. A. A. Level spare.
b. The Pagoda.
c. Belfry.
d. D. Ri. WaW h feet high.
e. Shed fiT offerings.
/. House of tlie prie t.
g. G. The rock.
i'. The Foot-print.
o. Opening towards R;itn. Npoora.
n. Opening towards K;inily.
>n. Opening Co the well.
5 10 fo ^ 40 CiiAP. II. ] ADAM'S FEAX. MI a draught from the sacred spring, whicli runs witliin a few feet of the summit.
The panorama from the summit of Adam's Peak is, pei'haps, the grandest in the world, as no other mountain, ahhough surpassing it in aUitude, presents the same unob- structed view over land and sea.^ Around it^to the north and east, the traveller looks down on the zone of lofty hills that encircle the Kandyan kingdom, whilst to the westward the eye is carried far over undulating plains, threaded by rivers hke cords of silver, till in the purple distance the glitter of the sunbeams on the sea marks the hue of the Indian Ocean.
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