Excerpt from Summer in Ceylon From our delightful little resthouse on the long and narrow peninsular of Mandapam, a ten minutes' walk took us to the jetty, and by sail-boat or steam-launch we could cross in an hour to Pamben on the Island of Rameseram, but Rama's or Adam's Bridge is inaccessible on account of the demolishing effect of both time and tide on the very fragile coral of which it was constructed. Until the present very complete engineering projects have been carried out, which will connect the South Indian ...
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Excerpt from Summer in Ceylon From our delightful little resthouse on the long and narrow peninsular of Mandapam, a ten minutes' walk took us to the jetty, and by sail-boat or steam-launch we could cross in an hour to Pamben on the Island of Rameseram, but Rama's or Adam's Bridge is inaccessible on account of the demolishing effect of both time and tide on the very fragile coral of which it was constructed. Until the present very complete engineering projects have been carried out, which will connect the South Indian Railway with the Ceylon Government Railway force is to go back from this point via Madura and cross by Tuticorin, or to take one of the semi-weekly steamers direct to Colombo. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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