XO. 12 — 18(30-1.] RADULLA AND ITS PRODUCTS. 



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Animal Products. 



Lac, Chermes Lasca. 



Wax. 



Honey. 



Chetah Skins. 



Minerals. 



Lime Stone. 



Corundum, or Cinnamon Stone. 

 Talc. 



Plumbago. 

 Iron Ore. 

 Sulphuret of Iron. 

 Saltpetre Earth. 

 Plastic Clays. 



I shall briefly notice some of the remarkable natural 

 products indigenous to the district. 



Vegetables. 



It has been justly observed by an eminent authority, 

 that " However luxuriantly a country may be covered 

 with valuable plants in the wild state, it is only by 

 special culture that the thousands of textiles we require 

 can be furnished. The existence in the wild state of such 

 plants afford sound foundation for the presumption, that 

 these, when cultivated under similar conditions of climate 

 and soil, will reward the labour of the husbandman/" 3 



Meal Sago, from the Jaggery Palm. — This is deserving of 

 attention as an article of diet, being found in the district 

 of Colombo also. But a better mode than that known 

 to the natives must be resorted to to render it clean 

 and pure. As prepared by the natives, it is of a brown 

 colour, mixed with pith and the woody fibre of the stem. 



A superior article can be manufactured by pounding 

 the pith when fresh, and straining it through cloth in 



* J- Forbes Wilson. A.M., M.D-, Reporter on the Products of 

 India, in Journal of Society of Art^, 10th May, 1860. 



