G6 



PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. 



[PART I. 



quantity of rain falls on the south-western portion, in 

 the month of May, when the wind from the Indian Ocean 

 is intercepted, and its moisture condensed by the lofty 

 mountain ranges, surrounding Adam's Peak. The region 

 principally affected by it stretches from Point-de-Galle, 

 as far north as Putlam, and eastward till it includes the 



One maximum at the spring change of the monsoon anticipating a little that 

 another at the autumnal change corresponding more exactly with that of the 

 through the year more equably distributed at Colombo. 



greater portion of the ancient Kandyan kingdom. But 

 the rains do not reach the opposite side of the island ; 

 whilst the west coast is deluged, the east is sometimes 

 exhausted with dryness ; and it not unfrequently happens 

 that different aspects of the same mountain present at 



