﻿manner impartial administration of jnstice, wliicli is 

 necessary to support it, and without which it nuist 

 unavoidably degenerate into endless and generally 

 destructive schemes of extortion and rapine, that soon 

 or late must bring such unhappy countries, let their 

 natural resources he ever so great, to the lowest state 

 of wretchedness ; as is already the case both in the 

 Travancore and Cochiu dominions. 



Note on Kerol Oodputtee, page 367, 



Several copies of this valuable hlfforical monument are in the posscs- 

 sian of the writer of this, of vvlsich he purposes to publish a free trans- 

 lation at some future per od. The name given to these annals o^ Ma- 

 labor is differently spei;cd and explained ; some call it Keralulpaddyy 

 which means the common. wealth ol Malabar or Kerala., (the Sanscr'u 

 name (or Malabar ;} others write Kerala^tlpatty, and translate it His- 

 torical account or description of KeraUy which is the original name to 

 the low country, and still used in Sanscrit : for the hill country had 

 existed long before, and was known under the name of Mala or Mai- 

 learn the hill country, but in the lapse of time the name oi Malleum 

 prevailed, anc;! was applied to both the hilly and the low country^ ar4 

 the name of Kerala became obsolete. 



