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hilly, great masses of black gneiss showing out through the luxuriant 

 foliage. Finally, we ascended a long hill, turned into a tea plantation, 

 and leaving the gharri, followed a winding pathway to a pretty bunga- 

 low, situated where it commanded a view of much of the surrounding 

 country and even gave a glimpse of the sea in the far distance. Here 

 I was met and welcomed by Mr. R. W. Harrison, and a neighbor, Mr. 

 J. T. Withers, of Clontarf. 



It was really too hot just then to start out to view the rubber, so 

 we sat in huge planters' chairs that have broad shelf-like arms that 



VIEW FROM HILLY ROAD NEAR CULLODEN. 



extend far out in front, arranged so that the lounger can have his feet 

 as high as his head, and talked planting experiences. 



Culloclen is, of course, primarily a tea estate, beautifully laid out 

 with fine gravel roads all over it, and not a weed to be seen at any time 

 in all of its broad acres. Indeed, the weeding of crops in Ceylon has 

 been reduced to an exact science. It is all done by contract, and costs 

 thousands of pounds a year, but it effectually stops the danger from fire 

 that an occasional cutting of the weeds invites. 



