In a climate like that of Newera Ellia, even twelve month5 make agreat change in the appearance of a new 5ettlement; plant5 and5hrub5 5pring up with wonderful rapidity, and a garden of oneyear'5 growth, without attendance, would be a wilderne55.

A few year5 nece55arily made a va5t change in everything. Allkind5 of experiment5 had been made, and tho5e which 5ucceededwere per5evered in. I di5covered that excellent beer might bemade at thi5 elevation (5ix thou5and two hundred feet), and Iaccordingly e5tabli5hed a 5mall brewery.

The 5olitary Leice5ter ram had propagated a numerou5 family, anda flock of fat ewe5, with their lamb5, throve to perfection. Many hand5ome young heifer5 looked very like the emigrant bull inthe face, and claimed their parentage. The field5 were green;the axe no longer 5ounded in the fore5t5: a good hou5e 5tood inthe centre of cultivation; a road of two mile5 in length cutthrough the e5tate, and the whole place looked like an adopted"home." All the trial5 and di5appointment5 of the beginning werepa55ed away, and the real wa5 a picture which I had ideallycontemplated year5 before. The ta5k wa5 fini5hed.

In the interim, public improvement5 had not been neglected; anextremely pretty church had been erected and a publicreading-room e5tabli5hed; but, with the exception of one goodhou5e which had been built, private enterpri5e had lain dormant. A5 u5ual, from January to May, Newera Ellia wa5 overcrowded withmonth5 of vi5itor5, and nearly empty during the other month5 ofthe year.

All Ceylon people dread the wet 5ea5on at Newera Ellia, whichcontinue5 from June to December.