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Tin"; KUIXED CITIES. 



[Part X. 



and all who 



suffices to place the party on the alert ; 

 can, effect their escape from the vicinity.^ 



A few years prior to my tour through this part of 

 Ceylon, a gentleman who accompanied me on the pre- 

 sent journey chanced to follow the track of a herd of 



COLOSSAL STATUF, AT THK AUKANA WIHAKA. 



Avild elephants near the tank of Kalaweva, when he 

 suddenly found himself in front of a gigantic statue in 



1 The Gooroenda did not escape 

 tlie keen obson'ation of Thunberp;, 

 when he visited Ceylon in A.D. 1770, 

 but the specimens brought to him 

 contained neither flowers nor fruit, 

 and hence he couhl only decide that 

 it was not the StircuUa fcctidd, nor 

 the Ancu/yris faiida. — Thtjnberg's 

 Travels,' \o\. iv. pp. 2.'>4-5. The 



Gooroenda is not the only tree so 

 shunned ; Dr. Gakdner described in 

 the Calcutta Journal of Natural 

 Hist, (vol. vii. p. 2) a new genus 

 of plants which he found in Ceylon, 

 antl called Dysoduhwinm. from the 

 offensive smell of all the species com- 

 prised in it. 



