An Historical Political And Statistical Account Of Ceylon And Its Dependencies Volume 2

Author : Charles Pridham
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781334261756
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book An Historical, Political and Statistical Account of Ceylon, Vol. 2 written by Charles Pridham and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-11-13 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Historical, Political and Statistical Account of Ceylon, Vol. 2: And Its Dependencies In few countries do mountains exhibit greater variety of forms and directions. They most frequently occur connected in chains, and terminating in rounded or peaked summits. Their sides are always steep, and occasionally precipitous and rocky. Solitary insulated mountains are of rare occurrence. In some districts the mountain chains run in a parallel direction, in others even adjoining mountains do not correspond with any regularity in, their direction. Thus in Doombera, the mountain ridges generally run n.n.e. And s.s.w. In Ouva, on the contrary, they run in various directions. One remarkable circumstance in reference to Ceylon, is, that no correspon dence can be traced between the proportional heights of the mountains and the depths of the adjoining valleys. Thus there is not a single lake nor even stagnant pool among the mountains, and it is scarcely credible that they ever existed, as they could not well be filled up by the detritus of rocks, little liable to decay and disintegration. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.