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Natural Productions of the Tfland of Ceylon, 



There is every reafon to fuppofe that there are extinguished 

 volcanoes in Ceylon, from the fpecimens of volcanic (lores 

 which have heen collected at Trincomalee. This opinion is 

 fupported by the account, that there is a lake near the fum- 

 mit of Adam's Peak, whofe height is conjectured to be 

 1500 fathoms above the level of the fea. It received this 

 name from the Portuguefc ; but the Cingalefe call it Sana- 

 male. According to the tradition of the country, it was 

 Buddah, the founder of the government, and to whom the 

 inhabitants pay almoft divine honours, who left the mark of 

 one of his feet on this mountain, while the impreffion of the 

 other was found in Siam. 



Table of Obfervations on the general Jlafe of the Atmofphere 

 in Columbo, which proves the unexampled uniformity of its 

 Climate y both as to its temperature an 1 the regular denfity of 

 the Air. The variation of the barometer in twelve months 

 is only 0*36 of an Englifh inch, and that of Fahrenheit s 

 thermometer only 13 degrees. 



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