Sir William Gregory, K. C. M. G., Formerly Member of Parliament And Sometime Governor of Ceylon. An Autobiography
Sir William Gregory, K. C. M. G., Formerly Member of Parliament And Sometime Governor of Ceylon. An Autobiography
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It was settled we were to go up at once to Nuwara- Eliya, the Ceylon sanatorium, about 6400 feet above the sea. We remained, however, for a few days at Kandy, to hold an official reception, and above all to make acquaintance with the Kandian chiefs. This first railway journey in Ceylon was immensely interesting, and even the low, flat country which we traversed to the foot of the hills, with its bare, paddy fields, clumps of trees, plants of gigantic foliage, and herds of wallowing buffaloes, a...nd little humped cattle, uttering an extraordinary noise, more resembling an eructation than the loud, bold lowing of our domestic oxen, was not without enjoyment. The distance from Colombo to Kandy was about seventy-four miles, and at the station of Rambakkan we all at once went up the ascent from the flat plain to the mountainous region of the Kandy kingdom. The city of Kandy is about 1700 feet above the sea-level, and we rose that height in a few miles. The engine grunted and creaked as it dragged us up over alarmingly sharp curves and gradients between forty-five and fifty feet ; but the Digitized by Google 278 SIR WILLIAM GREGORY.
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It was settled we were to go up at once to Nuwara- Eliya, the Ceylon sanatorium, about 6400 feet above the sea. We remained, however, for a few days at Kandy, to hold an official reception, and above all to make acquaintance with the Kandian chiefs. This first railway journey in Ceylon was immensely interesting, and even the low, flat country which we traversed to the foot of the hills, with its bare, paddy fields, clumps of trees, plants of gigantic foliage, and herds of wallowing buffaloes, a...nd little humped cattle, uttering an extraordinary noise, more resembling an eructation than the loud, bold lowing of our domestic oxen, was not without enjoyment. The distance from Colombo to Kandy was about seventy-four miles, and at the station of Rambakkan we all at once went up the ascent from the flat plain to the mountainous region of the Kandy kingdom. The city of Kandy is about 1700 feet above the sea-level, and we rose that height in a few miles. The engine grunted and creaked as it dragged us up over alarmingly sharp curves and gradients between forty-five and fifty feet ; but the Digitized by Google 278 SIR WILLIAM GREGORY.
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