A guide to Colombo; with maps a handbook of information, useful alike to the visitor and the resident - Softcover
Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...Church--Barber Street--Layard's Broadway--Oil Mills--Sinhalese Baptist Chapel--St. Joseph's--Madampitiya Cemetery--Timber Market--Victoria Bridge--Crandpass Market--Buddhist Temple at Kelani--Riverside Scene--Negombo Steamboats--Hendala Leper Asylum--Oil Mills--Brick Kilns--Crow Island--Abraham's Nurseries--Churches of St. John, St. James, and St. Andrew--Mohammedan Mosque--Tanque Salgado--Graving Dock--Uplands--Anglican Cathedral--St. Thomas's College--Kotahena Buddhist Temple--Roman Catholic Cathedral--Convent--St. Benedict's Institute--Wesleyan Chapel--St. Anthony's--Petroleum Stores--Hutson's Engineering Works--Bird Mart--St. Thomas Tamil Church--The Chetties--Hindu Temples. THE NORTHERN DRIVE. IF in some respects the Northern Drive is the least pleasing of the three--(the visitor must make up his mind to be put to some little inconvenience from the odours inseparable from Oriental bazaars, and, should his visit happen to be during the dry season, from the dust which is the inevitable result of crowded and tinwatered thoroughfares)--it is, perhaps, the most interesting: it includes the main portion of the old native, Portuguese, and Dutch parts of the town, for Kollupitiya, Slave Island, and the Cinnamon Gardens suburbs are the creations of British times and mainly of the last forty years. He will now encounter some of the principal places of worship in the city and scenes which differ from those already met with. Starting once more from the Grand Oriental Hotel, down York street, the route lies to the left past "The Colombo Ironworks" of Messrs. Walker, Sons & Co., Ltd. Close at hand are the Coal Sheds, where immense quantities of coal for the shipping are stored. These sheds are capable of sheltering 100,000 tons, the chief belonging to ...
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