CHAP. XIX.] THE BOTANIC GARDEN NEAR KANDY, 



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size which it can show. Besides, all possible better known plants 

 are to be found here, cultivated in the finest specimens. Spices 

 and drugs were specially well represented. Here long tendrils of 

 the black pepper-plant wound themselves up the thick tree- 

 stems, here the cardamon and the ginger flourished, here the 



HIGHLAND VIEW IK THE INTERIOR OF CEYLON. 



Coffee Plantatious ; Adam's Peak in the back-ground. 



pretty cinnamon, camphor, cinchona, nutmeg, and cocoa trees 

 made a splendid show, here I saw a newly gathered harvest of 

 vanilla. The abundance of things to be seen, learned, and 

 enjoyed here was incredible. However, the next day I deter- 

 mined on the advice of Dr. Thwaites to make a tour up to the 



