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An Historical Relation Of The Island Ceylon In The East Indies

PART I
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And at the same time on the East side is very fair and dry weather, and the time of their Harvest.

On the contrary, when the East Winds blow, it is Tilling time for those that inhabit the East Parts, and Harvest to those on the West.

So that Harvest is here in one part or other all the Year long.

These Rains and this dry weather do part themselves about the middle of the Land; as oftentimes I have seen, being on the one side of a Mountain called Cauragas hirg, rainy and wet weather, and as soon as I came on the other, dry, and so exceeding hot, that I could scarcely walk on the ground, being, as the manner there is, barefoot.
[What parts have most Rain.] It rains far more in the High-Lands of Conde Uda, then in the Low-Lands beneath the Hills.

The North End of this Island is much subject to dry weather.


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