266 x 237 mm. View looking along a section of line running through deep jungle near Yattegamme, with Europeans and Singhalese posed beneath a large bo tree: ‘A little beyond Yattegamme on the right side of the line is a truly magnificent Bo-tree (ficus religiosa), one of the grandest specimens we should say in Ceylon. It doubtless marks the site of a very ancient Buddhist temple, founded, perhaps at a period when the climate on the banks of the Maha Oya permitted the protracted and healthy residence of human beings. This ancient giant of the forest has a trunk 75 feet in circumference, while the overshadowing branches cover an immense area of minor forest. Messrs. Slinn's large-sized photograph of this glorious tree is a great success and will be highly prized by botanists as well as all interested in the Railway. The bursts of light through the dense foliage have a striking effect; and the human figures, stalwart Europeans and lithe Natives, are so placed as fully to exhibit the vast proportions of the tree’, (p. 7).