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Title: Mountain adventures in various parts of the world
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Headley, Joel Tyler, 1813-1897
Subjects: Mountaineering
Publisher: New York, Scribner, Armstrong, and co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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AK, CEYLON. ASCENT BY DR. DAVY, 1817. The first excursion which I made into the interiorafter ray arrival in Ceylon, was to Adams Peak, thehighest mountain in the island, and one that can-not fail to excite the interest of the traveller ; itsname being known, and its fame spread all over theworld, and being an object of veneration almostequally to the Buddhist and the Hindoo, to theMahometan and the nominal Christian of India,each of whom considers it a sacred mountain, andhas attached to it some superstitious tale. On the 15th of April, 1817, at dawn, I set outfrom Colombo in company with my friends, the Rev.G. Bisset, William Granville, Esq., and Mr. Moon :on the 17th we reached Ratnapoora, and on theevening of the 19th, the summit of the Peak, dis-tant from Colombo only sixty-six miles. Our mode of travelling varied with the natureof the road and country. The first sixteen miles wewent expeditiously in gigs, over an excellent road,through a populous country, delightfully shaded the
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adams peak, ceylon. 267 greater part of the way by the rich and beautifulfoliage of extensive groves of cocoa-nut trees, whichform a deep belt round the southwest part of theisland. On leaving the great maritime road at Pantarato strike into the interior, we exchanged our gigsfor the indolent Indian vehicles, palanqueens, inwhich we were carried as far as Ratnapoora, inSaffragan, about forty-three miles from Colombo,over a pretty good new road, through a country lowand yet hilly, in general overgrown with wood, verythinly inhabited (having been a border region) andlittle cultivated; and excepting here and there, ex-hibiting few objects and little scenery of an interest-ing nature. At Horima, where we slept the firstnight in our palanqueens, we noticed the remains ofa Hindoo building of the simplest kind of architec-ture, the style of which has already been alluded to.The next morning at dawn, just before sunrise, froma hill over which we were passing, we had a splendiddew of a tropica

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