Membaca catatan pelawat yang mengunjungi Sri Lanka mereka bercerita tentang beberapa lokasi menarik di sana. Ada lokasi yang menjadi femes kerana ciri sejarah. Antaranya adalah Hamilton Canal.
Petikan:
The Hamilton Canal (or the Dutch Canal, as it is sometimes known) is a waterway that stretches for 14.5 kilometres between the town of Puttalam and the city of Colombo, and that also passes through the city of Negombo. When the Dutch took over Sri Lanka, they established one of their capitals in Colombo (the other being in Galle). They had assumed that the marshlands in nearby Muthurajawela presented ideal conditions for growing paddy rice, but eventually discovered that the tides coming in from the sea drowned their crops in salt water.
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The Portuguese constructed the original canal in the 17th century, but it was the traders from the Dutch East India Company who expanded the canal, in the next century. The Dutch settlers also used the canal to transport pearls and spices from the north to Colombo.
The canal was constructed by the British in 1802 and completed in 1804. It was designed to drain salt water out of the Muthurajawela wetlands. The canal was named after Gavin Hamilton, the Government Agent of Revenue and Commerce.
source: travel adventures (link)
"Hamilton Canal". loves sri lanka - link.
The Hamilton Canal: A conduit for spice in
the past and garbage in the present. oceanlust - link.
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