 | William Knighton - Sri Lanka - 1845 - 424 pages
...extraordinary excavations rivalled the most remarkable labours of antiquity, and were hardly surpassed by the kindred wonders of Egypt. The remains of these ' national...monuments demonstrate an amount of population and a state uf prosperity infinitely superior to what exists at present, or has for a long period existed, in Ceylon,... | |
 | University magazine - 1849 - 788 pages
...the most remarkable labors of antiquity, and were hardly surpassed by the kindred wonders of b/gypt. The remains of these national monuments demonstrate...present, or has for a long period existed in Ceylon. Not less striking than these lakes are the vast mounds, temples, and mausoleums, which are generally... | |
 | Henry Charles Sirr - Sri Lanka - 1850 - 404 pages
...extraordinary excavations rivalled the most remarkable labours of antiquity, and were hardly surpassed by the kindred wonders of Egypt. The remains of these national...present, or has for a long period existed in Ceylon. Not less striking than these lakes are the vast mounds, temples, and mausoleums, which are generally... | |
 | Henry Charles Sirr - Sri Lanka - 1850 - 408 pages
...extraordinary excavations rivalled the most remarkable labours of antiquity, and were hardly surpassed by the kindred wonders of Egypt. The remains of these national...present, or has for a long period existed in Ceylon. Not less striking than these lakes are the vast mounds, temples, and mausoleums, which are generally... | |
 | John Wilson - Pyramids - 1856 - 524 pages
...These extraordinary excavations rivalled the most remarkable labours of antiquity. The remains of those national monuments demonstrate an amount of population,...present, or has for a long period existed in Ceylon. Not less striking than these lakes are the vast mounds, temples, and mausoleums, which are generally... | |
 | John Wilson (writer on astronomy.) - 1856 - 532 pages
...These extraordinary excavations rivalled the most remarkable labours of antiquity. The remains of those national monuments demonstrate an amount of population,...present, or has for a long period existed in Ceylon. Not less striking than these lakes are the vast mounds, temples, and mausoleums, which are generally... | |
 | 1849 - 946 pages
...the most remarkable labors of antimiity, and were hardly surpassed bv the kindred wonders of Kgypt. The remains of these national monuments demonstrate an amount of population, and a stnte of prosperity inlinitcly superior to what exists at present, or has for a long period existed... | |
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These extraordinary excavations rivalled the most remarkable labours of antiquity, and were hardly surpassed by the kindred wonders of Egypt. The remains of these national monuments demonstrate an amount of population, and a state of prosperity infinitely... 