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the twelve principal are called desavonies, and the majority of the rest, 
rate, and they may properly be denominated districts. 
The desavonies were each placed under the orders of a chief, or governor, 
called Desave, and are as follow :— 
The Four Korles, Walapana, 
The Seven Korles, Udapalala, 
Uwa, Nawerekalawiga, 
Matele, Wellasse, 
Saffregam, Bintenue, 
The Three Korles, Tamankada. 
The other nine districts were respectively under the authority of chiefs, 
who, except the two last, were distinguished by the name of Rati Mahat- 
meya, and are as follow :— 
Udanuwere, Hewahete, 
Yatinuwere, Koimale, 
Tunpanahe, Uda, or Upper Bulatgame, 
Harispattu, Pata, or Lower Bulatgame. 
Dumbere. 
The Four Korles. 
The provinces, or desavony, called the Four Korles, extend westward 
from the mountains which limit the high country of Ceylon to the frontier 
of the maritime provinces. Its mean extent, from east to west, may be 
estimated at about twenty-six English miles; from north to south about 
fourteen English miles. 
It is bounded on the east by a range of mountains which separate it from 
Tunpanahe, Yatinuwere and Udapalala, of which the principal points, ex- 
tending south from Alagolle Kanda, are Balani, Kande, Maragaha, Eyla, 
Kaduganawe, Nikahetiye, or Alpite Kande, and Ambuluwane Kande. 
On the south-east and south it is separated from Dolosbage by a branch 
of the same range, in which the principal hills are Naalle Kande, Rahale- 
gale, and Murute Kande. 
On the south, from Lower Bulatgame and the three Korles, by a less 
mountainous limit, in which the principal points are Alkedina, Gala Kaha- 
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