Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
From Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World - Mark Twain.
"January 13. Unspeakably hot. The equator is arriving again. We are with eight degrees of it. Ceylon present. Dear me, it is beautiful! And most sumptuously tropical, as to character of foliage and opulence of it. 'What though the spicy breezes blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle'.
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