tailieunhanh - Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume

I. General Aspect. Singular beauty of the island Its ancient renown in consequence Fable of its "perfumed winds" (note) Character of the scenery II. Geographical Position Ancient views regarding it amongst the Hindus,--"the Meridian of Lanka" Buddhist traditions of former submersions (note) Errors as to the dimensions of Ceylon Opinions of Onesicritus, Eratosthenes, Strabo, Pliny, Ptolemy, Agathemerus 8, The Arabian geographers Sumatra supposed to be Ceylon (note) True latitude and longitude General Eraser's map of Ceylon (note) Geological formation Adam's Bridge Error of supposing Ceylon to be a detached fragment of India III. The Mountain System Remarkable hills, Mihintala and Sigiri Little evidence of volcanic action Rocks,. | Ceylon an Account of the Island Physical 1 Ceylon an Account of the Island Physical Historical and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History Antiquities and Productions Volume 1 of 2 by James Emerson Tennent This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title Ceylon an Account of the Island Physical Historical and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History Antiquities and Productions Volume 1 of 2 Author James Emerson Tennent Release Date September 28 2004 eBook 13552 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CEYLON AN ACCOUNT OF THE ISLAND PHYSICAL HISTORICAL AND TOPOGRAPHICAL WITH NOTICES OF ITS NATURAL HISTORY ANTIQUITIES AND PRODUCTIONS VOLUME 1 OF 2 E-text prepared by Carnegie Mellon University Juliet Sutherland Leonard Johnson and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team Note Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See or http dirs 1 3 5 5 13552 13552-h or http dirs 1 3 5 5 13552 CEYLON AN ACCOUNT OF THE ISLAND PHYSICAL HISTORICAL AND TOPOGRAPHICAL WITH NOTICES OF ITS NATURAL HISTORY ANTIQUITIES AND PRODUCTIONS by SIR JAMES EMERSON TENNENT . . c. Illustrated by Maps Plans and Drawings Fourth Edition Thoroughly Revised VOLUME I LONDON 1860 Illustration Frontispiece for Vol I NOOSING WILD ELEPHANTS--Vol 2 p 359 368 c CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME PART I. 2 PART I. PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. CHAPTER I . I. General Aspect. Singular beauty of the island Its ancient renown in consequence Fable of its perfumed winds note Character of the scenery II. Geographical Position Ancient views regarding it amongst the Hindus -- the