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The first trip of the new-comer in Ceylon is generally made towards Wackwelle-hill, a few 
miles from Galle. The country displayed before the eye at the summit is highly picturesque and 
as every-where in the cultivated part of the island, has the appearance of a beautiful park. Wack- 
welle-river is seen winding through verdant paddi-fields intercepted by beautiful masses of shady 
trees of every hue and shape, above which lofty coco-nut palms are towering. 
These lovely groves are tenanted by great numbers of the black monkey of the plain 
(Semnopithecus leucoprymnus,) called Kaloo Wanderoo by the natives. These creatures 
are seldom disturbed here, and are wont to watch the rambling visitors to the place, from one of 
their favourite trees. 
In the foreground of the picture are standing two specimens of the singular sugar palm 
(Caryota urens), the Kitool of the natives. This useful tree yields an enormous amount of 
delicious saccharine sap, which is transformed by boiling into a kind of brown sugar (jaggery). 
The ground below the two palms is thickly covered with a pretty shrub, the Lantana 
mixta, which was introduced some forty years ago by Sir Hudson Lowe from the Mauritius and 
has propagated so rapidly in the island, as to become finally even a nuisance to the cultivators. 
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