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Near a mile from Matura, we were (hewn another 

 temple of Boodhoo, in the deep receffes of woods and 

 flirubs, the w hole country being covered with them, and 

 the habitations difperfed among thefe enclofed by gar- 

 dens and little plantations This temple, or rather houfe, 

 was decorated in front with flowering trees and Ihrubs ; 

 among which was a clump of bamboos, remarkable for 

 being of a bright yellow colour, with fmall ftripes of 

 green branching from below the joints. The priefts, 

 "with much complaifance, permitted us to cut one as a 

 fpecimen, and prefented us with flowers, among which 

 was the yellow Moogry. Within was an image of Bood- 

 hoo, and feveral other figures illuminated by lamps and 

 enclofed by curtains, as at the other temples. In like 

 manner the terrace or raifed altar, was covered with 

 flowers, and the walls with paindngs. The drefs of the 

 priefts was the fame as already defcribed, an orange or 

 tawny-coloured cloth enveloped the body ; the colour 

 decaying turned to a kind of fnuff colour. 



We were pondufted by a narrow ftair-cafe to^n up- 

 per-room, wherein was placed a painting of one of the 

 figures below, (a female,) but we could not get a difl.in6l 

 account of it from want of an interpreter. 



The head priefts of thefe temples, we underftand, were 

 called Terrinanie. The inferior orders Ganinnanra. 



Ruins of a Hindu temple {or Dewullum) on Dewunder- 

 head, or Divi-noor, (called in the charts Dunder-headj 



the Southerly point of Ceylon. 



About three miles from MaturUy the roadpaffing along 

 the fea-beach of the bay formed by the promontory to 

 the eaft, we afcended a gentle declivity cloathed with 

 woods of various kinds of trees, but chiefly the cocoa, 

 and in about a mile's wal^ came to a Qingalefe temple* 



* Plate, No. 1, 



