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XXXII. A Ctific Imcription found i7i Ceylon, commimkated by Sir A. 

 JoHXSTON, V.P.R.A.S. ; "d'ith a Translation by the Rev. Samuel Lee, 

 A.M., Professor of Arabic in the University of Cambridge.* 

 Read February 3d, 1827. 



Dear Sir: Cambridge, Nov.QT/, 1826. 



Herewith you will receive the Ceylon Papers which you were so good as 

 to lend me. I should have returned them much earlier had not my Lec- 

 tures absorbed nearly the whole of my time. You will perceive I have made 

 an attempt to decipher the whole of the inscription, which, together with a 

 translation of it, I now send you. I have availed myself of the previous 

 endeavours of Major Stewart, as far as I could coincide with him in opinion ; 

 the rest I have made out as well I could. It is as follows : 



INSCRIPTION. 



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J— ^ ijis- i^\ '^ ^\ (_3^~^ 



fjfj^ ^j i^^ ^jJ- c-J\_j i^S^\JcJ>\j \j3J\ 

 c^^\ JjA^b wCjjj lUi oJi^j\ \J3 



ijj.^ ti>A^- ^««4 "V ' ^^J^;L^2\ *»J t-^-Cij (_^_j-.^\x;i 



• For a reduced fac-simile of the inscription see the accompanying plate. 



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