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|but merry all other gems are found in
lGevlo.l sell.
Tie land of Ceylon is 210 miles III
length and 140 miles il breadth at IL
widest part and contains 25,4a1 square
miles of natural beauty.
Wonderful Road System.
The British have developed won-
de1ful system of rock roads as well as
a first class railroad system. You
can motor to practically any part of
the island.
Ruined Cities of Ameradhapura.
| Pictures driving through the cocoa
nut palms; over mountains covered
with rubber and tea; paddy (rice)
fields irrigated by ancient methods of
engineering; passing jungles and see
ing wild animals crossing your road,
monkeys chatting at you and the
whole heavens filled with birds of the
most gorgeous plumage. Every tree
has either fruits that are eatable or
flowers that are a pleasing sight.
Then if you are interested in ruins the
"Ruined Cities of Ameradhapura" are
famous. Here you see the ruined
palaces and cities of the ancient Sing
halese kings. These ruins date back
5000 B. C. and every year new runs
are being -unearthed The -Tamlls
cameover from India proper and MADE
war ON the Singhalese, destroying her
cities that have never been rebuilt.
The Singhalese must haveDeen a Won
derful ingenious people. 1t TOOK
brains, Drawn and time to build their
cities. Modern engineers cannot 1lg-
ure out some of their buildings. How
they moved the huge stones to the
building site without modern methods
of TRANSPORTATION is still a puzzle to
the best engineers. Considering the
crude tools, the native uses today IS 1t
possible that their ancestors used the
same crude tools in building their cit
les? It's hardly possible, yet we must
think they had better methodist build
ing than we have today, but why have
the present natives no historical
knowledge of the building methods of
their ancestry? This another lost
art, equal, if not a greater loss, than
the Egyptian art of embaimirg.
Work of Ancient Egyptians.
We westerners think we have made
wonderful progress in the arts ard
sciences. Our inventions are marvel
Gus, but when we see the ruins of the
ancients it not only makes one believe
''there is nothing new under the sun"
but proves to our egotism that we are
still behind the times. If the old boys
of the time of the "flood" and shortly
thereafter could come back to this old
earth, they coul teach us far more
than we imagine.
| hope this attempt to answer your
questions has been sufficiently sue
cessful to warrant your asking for any
further information you may desire.
In other words letters from home
folks are more than welcome to this
lonesome boy, so write again and Of
ten.
Of course, | am interested in the
cure and prevention of disease out
here and am not a journalist, but
will try to answer any questions in
regard to general conditions you may
want to know.
When you get to California on your
vacation go to San Francisco, take
ship for Ceylon and I'll promise you
when you get here to show you more
natural beauty as well as some of the
most pathetic sights from a standpoint
of suffering humanity than mere man
could imagine.
Health Conditions Improving.
Health conditions are improving
rapidly and it is to be hoped that in
very few years this country will be
as healthful as it is beautiful.
With kindest personal regards for
you and yours, and hoping / may have
the pleasure of hearing from you
again and often, I am,
Your friend,
GEORGE H. HAMPTON, M. D.