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COLOMBO TO KAXDY. 



[Part VII. 



• The last thirty miles of this wonderM road passes 

 through scenery \vhich combines the grandeur ^f Alps 

 with the splen- 

 dour of tropical 

 vegetation. It is 

 an Oriental Sini- 

 plon, chmbing 

 hills, crossing tor- 

 rents ; and following the A\^nd- ''^^ 

 ings of ravines, till it reaches its Jj^ 

 extreme altitude at the pass 

 of Kaduganawa, one of those 

 romantic glens which the for- 

 mer kings of Kandy jealously 

 guarded as an entrance from 

 the low country. 



Some prophet had fore- 

 told that tlie " Kandyan 

 kingdom would perish 

 when a bullock should 

 be driven 

 through a cer- 

 tain hill, and 

 a horseman- 

 ride through 

 a rock." Sk 

 Edw. Barnes 

 carried a tun- 



pressed with the l)elief that they had 

 earli two tongues, and were enabled 

 to conduct two distinct discourses si- 

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 voiag (liCKoTi\vovfifv(n'' c'nTrv\ov fxiv 

 yap avToi'Q ^X*"' '"')*' y^'J"'"''"'' *''■' To- 

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 * * * * rh Se iravTbJv TrapacoKoTaroi; 

 iifia vpoQ Svo tHiv h'TvyxavovTiov \n\- 

 \ilv tvriXwr, aTTOKpivofifvovQ ri Kai raiq 

 viroKfin'ivatQ Trfpirrrc'irrKTiv «iVfi'a>c ti/u- 



