DUNUGAMA NITRE CAVE

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

DAVY (1821: 31 note) lists the nitre-cave … 20. Doonoogama from the district of the four Korles (note 1) ETYMOLOGY: These names, it may be clearly remarked, are not those of the caves themselves, which are generally nameless, but of the nearest inhabited places … (DAVY 1821: 31 note). SITUATION: At an unspecified location somewhere in the vicinity of an inhabited place (note 2) called Doonoogama (DAVY 1821) or Dunugama (note 3).DAVY (1821: 31 note) lists the nitre-cave … 20. Doonoogama from the district of the four Korles (note 1) ETYMOLOGY: These names, it may be clearly remarked, are not those of the caves themselves, which are generally nameless, but of the nearest inhabited places … (DAVY 1821: 31 note). SITUATION: At an unspecified location somewhere in the vicinity of an inhabited place (note 2) called Doonoogama (DAVY 1821) or Dunugama (note 3).