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Show Railroad in Ceylon. For sorno edrs past there has been a proposal to link tho Island of Ceylon Cey-lon to tho mainland of India by a rail- I way carried across u coral reef and I tho Island of .Ilameswaram. The I project has now been brought within ' view of completion by tho report of : a railway commission, which has Just been Issued In India, recommending tho construction of a broad-gaugo lino. Geological evidence shows that Coy-Ion Coy-Ion was originally Joined to India by a continuous IsthmuB, which, according accord-ing to tho tomplo records of Ramea-A'nram, Ramea-A'nram, was breached by a great storm In 14S0. |