Eight Years Wanderings in Ceylon

AL RESOURCES?NATIVE BLACKSMITHS. IN a climate like that of Newera Ellia, even twelve months make a great change in the appearance of a new settlement; plants and shrubs spring up with wonderful rapidity, and a garden of one year's growth, without attendance, would be a wilderness. A few years necessarily made a vast change in everything. All kinds of experiments had been made, and those which succeeded were persevered in. I discovered that excellent beer might be made at this elevation (six thousand two hundred feet), and I accordingly established a small brewery. The solitary Leicester ram had propagated a numerous family, and a flock of fat ewes, with their lambs, throve to perfection. Many handsome young heifers looked very like the emigrant bull in the face, and claimed their parentage. The fields were green ; the axe no longer sounded in the forests; a good housestood in the centre of cultivation ; a road of two miles in length cut through the estate, and the whole place looked like an adopted "home." All the trials and disappointments of the beginning were passed away, and the real was a picture which I had ideally contemplated years before. The task was finished. In the interim, public improvements had not been neglected ; an extremely pretty church had been erected, and a public reading-room established ; but, with the exception of one good house which had been built, private enterprise had lain dormant. As usual, from January to May, Newer...