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PLATE ХҮШ. 
The road from Neuera-Ellia to Kandy is renowned for the great number of cascades, which 
descend the sides of the high mountains. Close to the village of Rangbodde is one of the finest 
falls, crossed by a bridge connecting the main road. The country is here not unlike Switzerland, 
but many tropical forms of vegetation again remind the traveller, that he is in a warmer climate. 
Groups of plantains grow near the road, and the long white bell-like flowers ofthe Datura arborea 
are pendent from the rocks over the gushing water. 
This spot was some years ago shrouded in magnificent woods, but they have been all mer- 
cilessly cut down, to make way for the coffee plant which thrives now on the naked banks of the cascade. 
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