JOURNAL 



OF THE 



EOYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY, 

 CEYLON BRANCH. 



A VISIT TO RITIGALA, IN THE NORTH-CENTRAL 

 PROVINCE. 



By A. P. Green, Esq., f.e.s. 



(Bead December 28, 1888.) 



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HIS isolated mountain is a conspicuous object 

 from many of the tanks and bunds of the 

 North-Central Province ; and is especially 

 noticeable from the great embankment of 

 Kalawewa, forming a fine background to the 

 beautiful view eastward over the tanks and forest. Its 

 position is between the two main roads which diverge near 

 Dambulla to Trincomalee and Anuradhapura respectively, 

 and it may be reached from either of them by minor roads 

 from Habarenna and Kekirawa. 



Our visit was made in July last year, and we found the 

 country suffering from the effects of a long spell of dry 

 weather, which considerably diminished our hopes of making 

 a good collection of plants and insects. We left Kekirawa 

 in the afternoon, the little-used road taking us northward 

 for some four miles, with the mountain well in front all the 

 way. We then turned eastward, skirting its southern side 

 16—91 B 



