. 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. 588 THE euini:d cities. [Pakt X. " seven stories high, and contained four thousand rooms, with hundi'eds of stone ; ^ The present edifice was probably constructed at the close of the tliirteenth centiu-y, when the city, after its destruction by the Malabars, was restored by Wijayo Bahu IV.^, and the remains of the original palace are to be sought further north, in the direction of the Jayta-wana
. 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. 588 THE euini:d cities. [Pakt X. " seven stories high, and contained four thousand rooms, with hundi'eds of stone ; ^ The present edifice was probably constructed at the close of the tliirteenth centiu-y, when the city, after its destruction by the Malabars, was restored by Wijayo Bahu IV.^, and the remains of the original palace are to be sought further north, in the direction of the Jayta-wana-rama, where groups of stone pillars and mounds of brickwork and debris serve to indicate its site. This is rendered the more hkely by the presence on the spot of the Sat-mahal-prasada, whose name perpetuates the memory of " the seven-storied ;. :.rr"#^ff. 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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