Show I 1 water works iu in ceylon we have held the opinion that the croton works I 1 were the most gigantic gantic in the world and we have beard the assume im twide that no wo boks woks ks of such I 1 magnitude even existed in the days of old so fla far as 1 the latter assertion is concerned it is not correct mr tenant in his recent travels on the island afi of ceylon describes some ancient water tanks beside which our croton works are as some small creek compared to the hudson river oae 0 ie tank named is seven miles long three blundred hundred feet broad and sixty feet high tae tank WAS faced throughout through aut its entire length with layers of square stones Mier buge tank is but one of a great many spattered ed over ane conati X and had been erected for irrigation it is partly in in ruins as the water flows freely out of a large breach two hundri feet wida wh ch appears to have been made centuries ap ago tile the race which constructed construe led these tanks has passed away and the tha country where at I 1 one tie time there existed a highly civilized and skilful engineering people pe ople is now the abode of Ved dahs a 9 race race whose homes are in tents and who wander about from place to lo place an has calculated that it would cost coit more than to construct the front embankment to this huge water reservoir reservoir what must have been the cause which exterminated the people who erected these works and they must have hae been wim numerous erous and left them tu to fall in in ruin tenanted ten anted only by the buffalo and the kincl lad savages savage nc am r can |