other countrie

Canaway Pannone trifold at tsi-aic.com
Wed Sep 22 19:29:59 UTC 2010


An account of the currents of Ceylon, see HORSBURGH's _Directions for
Sailing to and from the East

Indies, &c._; vol i. p. 516, 536, 580; KEITH JOHNSTON's _Physical
Atlas_, plate xiii. p. 50.] There being no lakes in Ceylon[1],

in the still waters of which the rivers might clear themselves of the
earthy matter swept along in their rapid course from the hills, they
arrive at the beach laden with sand and alluvium, and at their junction
with the ocean being met transversely by the gulf-streams, the sand and
soil with which they are laden, instead of being carried out to sea,
are heaped
up in bars along the shores, and these, being augmented by similar
deposits held in suspension by the currents,
soon extend to north, and south, and force
the rivers to flow behind them in search of a new outlet. [Footnote 1:
Pliny alludes to a lake in Ceylon of vast dimensions, but it is clear
that his

informants must have spoken of one of the huge tanks for the purpose of
irrigation. Some of the _Mappe-mondes_ of the Middle
Ages place a lake in the middle of the island, with a city inhabited by
astrologers; but they have merely
reproduced the error of earlier geographe
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