. Ceylon : an account of the island, physical, historical, and topographical with notices of its natural history, antiquities and productions. Natural history -- Sri Lanka; Sri Lanka. Chap. I.] THE ALU WIHARA. 573 century before tlie Christian era, scribes employed by the Singhalese king reduced to writing the doctrines of Buddlia, which had been pre^'iously preserved by tradi- tion alone. ^ The scene is a very extraordinary one;— huge masses of granitic rock have been precipitated from the crest of a mountain, and on these other inasses have been hurled, which in then- descent have sphntered
. Ceylon : an account of the island, physical, historical, and topographical with notices of its natural history, antiquities and productions. Natural history -- Sri Lanka; Sri Lanka. Chap. I.] THE ALU WIHARA. 573 century before tlie Christian era, scribes employed by the Singhalese king reduced to writing the doctrines of Buddlia, which had been pre^'iously preserved by tradi- tion alone. ^ The scene is a very extraordinary one;— huge masses of granitic rock have been precipitated from the crest of a mountain, and on these other inasses have been hurled, which in then- descent have sphntered those beneath into gigantic fragments. In the fissm-es caused by these convulsions numbers of small apartments were formed at an early period, only two of whic]i now remain. The principal one is almost concealed beneath the overhanging brow of an enormous boulder in a gloomy recess, darkened by beethng rocks, and shaded by the surrounding THE ALU WIHARA. We passed the night at Nalande, thirty miles north of Kandy, and slept in the small Eoman Cathohc clnu-ch, which was prepared for (^lu^ reception by screening off the altar. This was a kind of accommodation for 1 See aide, Vol. I. Pt. iii. ch. viii. p. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Tennent, James Emerson, Sir, 1804-1869. London : Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts
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