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Excerpt from Rambles in Ceylon: "Wherein of Antres Vast, and Deserts Idle, Rough Quarries, Rocks, and Hills Whose Heads Touch Heaven, It Was My Hint to Speak;" From Delhi to Cape Comorin, from the banks of the Indus to those of the Brahmaputra, every part of our vast Indian territories has furnished an unfailing theme for descriptive writers; yet, strange to say, the beautiful and romantic Island of Ceylon, although almost touching, and, "if ancient tales say true," formerly forming a continuation of, the peninsula of Hindustan, has hitherto remained enveloped in comparative obscurity. 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.