TOPOGRAPHICAL NOTES ON THE JAFFNA ISLANDS. 3 



case to the top, and if it had to be used again for observations a 

 staging would have to be erected round it. It is substantially built 

 of cut coral stone, and as it is so well built it is a pity that it is not 

 more picturesque. It is, I think, a pity that the Survey Department 

 do not make their permanent towers a little less ugly. This one is 

 exactly like a chimney, but with a little more expenditure it could 

 have been made quite handsome. It is now a permanent feature of 

 the Iranaitivu landscape. 



KlK*KAIIATIVr 



The Ja f-Tna Islan cfs^ 









I omitted to mention an unfinished grotto of coral, a miniature 

 Lourdes, just above the seashore, some 200 yards from the Roman 

 Catholic church. 



Kachchaittvu. 



December 2. — Left for Kachchaitivu about 1 1 o'clock and arrived 

 there about 2.30 p.m. This is an island between Delft and Rames- 

 waram, about 11 miles south-west of Delft, and is uninhabited. 



