Seventy Years of Life in the Victorian Era Embracing a Travelling Record in Aus
Seventy Years of Life in the Victorian Era Embracing a Travelling Record in Aus
J Vaughan Hughes
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The cut of the man's features is decidedly feminine. They are both very cheery and amiable, and dearly love money-making. The very lowest are so indus- trious and thrifty that they get on and become rich. We had no time to take a trip by train to Candy, a town in the mountains (S. OOO feet above the sea-level, which is cool and ))eautiful, and where tea planta- tions are numerous. That man deserves well of his country, and indeed of Europe too, and his name ought to be perpetuated l)y a splendi...d monument, who first tliouglit of substituting the tea for the coffee plant in Ceylon, when the latter had by repeated cropping exhausted the soil ! I must not forget to mention that there is in the public gardens a tree 144 SEVENTY YEARS OE LIEE called "the Traveller's Palm, " from which, when nicked, fresh water flows out. We need to reside in a hot and thirsty land to appreciate fully this God-sent provision to His people. Our distance here from England is 7, 058 miles. Leaving Colombo at 1 p.
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