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The Rifle and The Hound in Ceylon

CHAPTER VII
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One of the ruined buildings had apparently rested upon seventy-two pillars.

These were still erect, standing in six lines of twelve columns; every stone appeared to be about fourteen feet high by two feet square and twenty-five feet apart.

This building must therefore have formed an oblong of 300 feet by 150.

Many of the granite blocks were covered with rough carving; large flights of steps, now irregular from the inequality of the ground, were scattered here and there; and the general appearance of the ruins was similar to that of Pollanarua, but of smaller extent.

The stone causeway which passed through the ruins was about two miles in length, being for the most part overgrown with low jungle and prickly cactus.


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