The ingenuity of Jaffna folk is exemplified in this irrigation device operated by man-power-described as lift irrigation
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models to portray in his book "Some Beautiful Women",she sent him a faded snapshot of herself,taken in Kandy
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Among the Prominent landmarks of the city is the ornate clock tower erected in 1875 to commemorate the visit of the Prince of Wales,Edward Vn. The clock was a gift to the town from the late Sir James Longden,a former Governor of Ceylon
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The completed causeway.....a long,straight drive across the sea.It took seventeen years to build
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The drawbridge,one of the few of its kind in Ceylon,helps small seafaring vessels to cut across the causeway.Here a vehicle goes over the bridge
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SEVERAL thousands of devotees from various parts of the Jaffna peninsula irrespective of their religious differences
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