Constance Gordon-Cumming wrote '..the neglected old burial ground where sleep so many of the early pioneers. Brackens and other ferns, tall spikes of lobelia, and trails of bramble, veil many a nameless grave and long-neglected monument, overshadowed by kindly trees...It is a sweet sunny spot, and I came on it by chance while seeking for the best point from which to sketch the Governor's Cottage, with the grand blue cone of Kiklomani as a background, and to the right the dark wooded range at the base of Pidura-tala-galla.' (C.F.Gordon-Cumming Two Happy Years in Ceylon, London, 1892, I, p.218)