PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. 



[PART I. 



mountains and rocks of this region, arises from the 

 fact that they contain those mines of precious stones 

 which from time immemorial have conferred renown 

 on Ceylon. The ancients celebrated the gems as well 

 as the pearls of " Taprobane ; " the tales of mariners 

 returning from their eastern expeditions supplied to 

 the story-tellers of the Arabian Nights their fables of 

 the jewels of "Serendib;" and the travellers of the 

 Middle Ages, on coining back to Europe, told of the 

 " sapphires, topazes, amethysts, garnets, and other costly 

 stones " of Ceylon, and of the ruby which belonged to 



1847, was enabled to furnish a list of 

 but thirty-seven species, the site of 



1. Hock crystal 



2. Iron quartz 



3. Common quartz 



4. Amethyst 



5. Garnet 



6. Cinnamon stone 



7. Hannotome 



8. Hornblende 



9. Hypersthene 



10. Common corundum 



11. Ruby 



12. Chrysoberyl 



13. Pleonaste . 



14. Zircon 



15. Mica 



16. Adular . 



17. Common felspar 



18. Green felspar . 



19. Albite 



20. Chlorite . 



21. Finite 



22. Black tourmaline 



23. Calcspar . 



24. Bitterspar 



25. Apatite . 



26. Fluorspar . 



27. Chiastolite 



28. Iron pyrites 



29. Magnetic iron pyrites 



30. Brown iron ore 



31. Spathose iron ore 



32. Manganese 



83. Molybden glance 



34. Tin ore . 



35. Arseniate of nickel 

 86. Plumbago . 

 37. Epistilbite 



which he had determined by personal 

 inspection. These were : 



Abundant. 



Saffragam. 



Abundant. 



Galle Back, Caltura. 



Abundant. 



Belligam. 



St. Lucia, Colombo. 



Abundant. 



Ditto. 

 Badulla. 



Ditto and Saffragam. 

 Ratganga, North Saffragam. 

 Badulla. 



Wellaway-ganga, Saffragam. 

 Abundant. 



Patna Hills, North-east. 

 Abundant. 

 Kandy. 

 Melly Matte. 

 Kandy. 

 Patna Hills 

 Neuera-ellia. 

 Abundant. 



Ditto. 

 Galle Back. 



Ditto. 



Mount Lavinia. 

 Peradenia. 



Ditto, Rajawelle. 

 Abundant. 

 Galle Back. 

 Saffragam. 

 Abundant. 

 Saffragam. 



Ditto. 



Morowa Corle. 

 St. Lucia. 



