JOURNAL 



OF THE 



CEYLON BRANCH 



OF THE 



ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY, 



" The design of the Society is fco institute and promote enquiries into 

 the History, Religion, Literature. Arts and Social condition of the 

 present and former inhabitants of this Island, with its Geology, Mine- 

 ralogy, its Climate and Meteorology, its Botany and Zoology." — Rules. 



Pries to Members, , per Number I rupee., to Non-Members, 2 rupees. 

 Copies are supplied to Booksellers at Home, at 5s, 



*#* Comm unications intended for publication in the Jour nal 

 must be forwarded to the Secretary at least a fortnight before 

 the assembly of the General Meeting at ibliich they are to be sub- 

 mitted. 



MESSRS. TRUBSER & Co., 57 & 59, LUDGATE HILL, LONDON. 

 Messrs. THACKER, SPINCK & Co., St. ANDREW'S LIBRARY, CALCUTTA. 



VV. HENRY HERBERT, GOVERNMENT PRINTER, CEYLON. 



1879. 



1879. 



AGENTS: 



