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Excerpt from Ceylon, Vol. 2 of 2: A General Description of the Island, Historical, Physical, Statistical, Containing the Most Recent InformationDavy, in 1819, and subsequently a party of officers on an elephant-shooting excursion, about the year 1826. On their return to Colombo, General Barnes, the governor, was so much taken by their account of the Climate that he decided to form a sanatarium there, and opened a road to it from Kandy in 1829. Sir E. Tennent appears to have overlooked Dr. Davy's statement that he visited the valley in 1819, when he wrote, The first visit of Europeans to this lofty plateau was made by some officers, who, in 1826, penetrated so far in pursuit of elephants (ii.The soil in many places is black and swampy, and gems are found at the end of the valley near the road to Badulla, and searching for them is an occasional amusement with visitors, but none of any value are ever found. There is a great deal of Nillo underwood in the jungles, a species of Strobilanthes and a septennial. The seeds are eagerly sought after by rats and jungle fowl, who migrate to the neighbourhood to eat them, the latter affording capital sport while it lasts.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.