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‘I will leave it to the curious in Ceylon antiquities to discover the reason that the people, who built these great edifices, should take the trouble of making so many millions of bricks for the work, where there was abundance of fine stone well calculated for their construction in the immediate neighbourhood.’—(An account of the ruins of Topary, *Ind. Ant.*, Vol. XXXVIII, p. 110, c. 2, line 12 f. ; c. 2, para. 2.)