The darker portions of the picture are composed of palms or other trees, and the back-ground consists partly of towering mountains, in a holiday suit of green velvet, partly of stupendous and romantic rocks in all their gloomy nakedness.
I saw many of the principal mountains in Ceylon--giants, 8,000 feet high; but, unfortunately, not the most celebrated one, Adam's Peak, which has an altitude of 6,500 feet, and which, towards the summit is so steep, that it was necessary, in order to enable any one to climb up, to cut small steps in the rock, and let in an iron chain.
But the bold adventurer is amply repaid for his trouble.

On the flat summit of the rock is the imprint of a _small_ foot, five feet long.

The Mahomedans suppose it to be that of our vigorous progenitor, Adam, and the Buddhists that of their large-toothed divinity, Buddha.

Thousands of both sects flock to the place every year, to perform their devotions.
There still exists at Candy the palace of the former king, or emperor of Ceylon.

It is a handsome stone building, but with no peculiar feature of its own; I should have supposed that it had been built by Europeans.