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constant supply of water. But, on the other hand, it is pro- 

 vided with a sluice or culvert just in the centre of the eastern 

 embankment. This sluice is constructed of rough slabs of 

 stone, which form the sides and covering of two parallel 

 channels, each a few feet in width and one or two deep. 

 Besides this sluice there are no signs of there having been 

 any other channel through the embankment. It may have 

 served merely as an outlet for rain water collecting within 

 the enclosure. 



If this half of the enclosure was not a tank, it may have 

 been the part allotted to the priests' residence or drama, the 

 western half being that set apart for religious purposes only. 

 This may account for the fact that there is more debris of 

 masonry in the western half than in the other. 



The eastern half is covered with thick jungle, but there 

 do not appear to be any ruins of buildings in it. On clearing 

 away the jungle in the western half, and excavating the 

 neighbourhood of the pillars already described, a good many 

 fragments of tiles and earthen pots were discovered, and 

 among them, completely buried, what appears to be a sort of 

 earthenware oven, divided into two compartments, was 

 found. The greater portion of it was intact, one end only 

 having been found broken. The face is ornamented with a 

 pattern of lines. 



I annex a sketch of it.* It has since been removed to the 

 Colombo Museum. 



The back wall of one compartment is broken and detached. 

 The length of the front, which projects an inch or two 

 beyond the side wall at each end, is 16 in., the height 6 in., 

 and the depth of the chambers about 6 in. 



I think the site of these ruins was once surveyed. If so, a 

 correct plan might perhaps be obtained from the Surveyor- 

 General's Office. 



5. Mr. W. Arthur de Silva then read his Paper on — 



* Not printed. 



