96 MODERX HISTORY. [Part VI. 



A.D. and a generation may pass away before the people 

 1850. jjecome familiar or theii' headmen reconciled to the 

 change. But the blessings of peaceful order, the mild 

 influence of education, and the gradual influx of wealth, 

 will not fail to produce their accustomed results ; and 

 the mountaineers of Ceylon will, at no distant day, 

 share with the lowlanders in the consciousness of 

 repose and prosperity under the protection of the 

 British Crown. 



