JOURNAL 



OF THE 



CEYLON BRANCH 



OF THE 



ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY 



1883. 



VOL. VIII. 



No. 26. 



EDITED BY THE HONORARY SECRET All Y. 



"The design of the Society is to institute and promote inquiries into the History, 

 Religion, Literature, Arts, and Social Condition of the present and former 

 Inhabitants cf the Island, with its Geology, Mineralogy, its Climate and 

 Meteorology, its Botany and Zoology.'' 



COLOMBO: 



GEO. J. A. SKEEN, GOVERNMENT PRINTER, CEYLON. 



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