Grassy glades beneath the shady trees give a park-like appearance to the scene, and afford a delightful resort for the deer.
In strolling through these shady glades you suddenly arrive among the ruins of ancient Pollanarua.

The palaces are crumbled into shapeless mounds of bricks.

Massive pillars, formed of a single stone, twelve feet high, stand in upright rows throughout the jungle here and there over an extent of some miles.

The buildings which they once supported have long since fallen, and the pillars now stand like tombstones over vanished magnificence.

Some buildings are still standing; among these are two dagobas, huge monuments of bricks, formerly covered with white cement, and elaborately decorated with different devices.