 The panorama is perhaps the grandest in the world, as no other mountain, although surpassing it in altitude, presents the same unobstructed view over land and sea. Around it to the north and east the traveller looks down on the zone of lofty hills that...  Palms and Pearls: Or Scenes in Ceylon - Page 137by Alan Walters - 1892 - 317 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Sir James Emerson Tennent - 1860 - 708 pages
...land and sea.1 Around it, to the north and east, the traveller looks down on the zone of lofty liills that encircle the Kandyan kingdom, whilst to the westward...the sunbeams on the sea marks the line of the Indian Ocean.2 The descent of the Kalu-ganga from Ratnapoora to Caltura is effected Avith great ease in the... | |
 | William Skeen - 1870 - 442 pages
...to the north and east, the traveller looks down on the zone of lofty hills that encircle the Kandian kingdom, whilst to the westward the eye is carried...sunbeams on the sea marks the line of the Indian Ocean." ' Steep the descent and wearisome the way ; The twisted boughs forbade the light of day: . . . Upright... | |
 | Edwin Hodder - 1876 - 554 pages
...the grandest in the world, as there is no other mountain, although surpassing it in altitude, which presents the same unobstructed view over land and...sunbeams on the sea marks the line of the Indian Ocean." Returning from the peak in the same direction as that whence the traveller came, Maskeliya is soon... | |
 | 1883 - 590 pages
...panorama presented to the view as the sun drives the clouds away. Tennant describes this scene as "... perhaps the grandest in the world, as no other mountain,...sunbeams on the sea marks the line of the Indian Ocean." Methodistically speaking the Kandyan kingdom is my " Circuit," and for the first time I see the whole... | |
 | Henry William Cave - 1895 - 240 pages
...hills that encircle the Kandyan kingdom, whilst to the westward the eye is carried far over undulated plains, threaded by rivers like cords of silver, till...sunbeams on the sea marks the line of the Indian Ocean." PLATE XXXI. KINTYRE, MASKELIYA. " The tree which will be noticed spreading completely over the river... | |
 | Henry William Cave - 1900 - 508 pages
...hills that encircle the Kandyan kingdom, whilst to the westward the eye is carried far over undulated plains, threaded by rivers like cords of silver, till...sunbeams on the sea marks the line of the Indian Ocean." CHAPTER XI. DIMBULA. now return to Hatton and make our way one more stage by rail to Talawakelle, in... | |
 | Henry William Cave - 1910 - 268 pages
...hills that encircle the Kandyan kingdom, whilst to the westward the eye is carried far over undulated plains, threaded by rivers like cords of silver, till...sunbeams on the sea marks the line of the Indian Ocean." Under peculiar atmospheric conditions that frequently present themselves the curious phenomenon known... | |
 | Henry William Cave - 1910 - 274 pages
...hills that encircle the Kandyan kingdom, whilst to the westward the eye is carried far over undulated plains, threaded by rivers like cords of silver, till...sunbeams on the sea marks the line of the Indian Ocean." Under peculiar atmospheric conditions that frequently present themselves the curious phenomenon known... | |
 | Henry W. Cave - 1994 - 502 pages
...hills that encircle the Kandyan kingdom, whilst to the westward the eye is carried far over undulated plains, threaded by rivers like cords of silver, till...sunbeams on the sea marks the line of the Indian Ocean." CHAPTER XI. DIMBULA. E now return to Hatton and make our way one more stage by rail to Talawakelle,... | |
 | William Skeen - 1997 - 432 pages
...to the north and east, the traveller looks down on the zone of lofty hills that encircle the Kandian kingdom, whilst to the westward the eye is carried...sunbeams on the sea marks the line of the Indian Ocean." ams " Steep the descent ami wearisome the way ; The twisted boughs forbade the light of clny : . .... | |
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