The records of their ancient cities still exist, but we have no account of their destruction.

The ruins of one of these cities, Pollanarua, are within half a mile of the village of Topari, and the waters of the adjacent lake are still confined by a dam of two miles in length, composed of solid masonry.

When the lake is full, it is about eight miles in circumference.
I had only just arrived at the village, and my horse-keeper had taken the horse to drink at the lake, when he suddenly came running back to say that a rogue elephant was bathing himself on the opposite shore, at about two miles' distance.
I immediately took my guns and went after him.

My path lay along the top of the great dam, which formed a causeway covered with jungle.

This causeway was about sixty feet in breadth and two miles in length; the lake washed its base about twenty feet below the summit.