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JOURNAL 



OF THE 



CEYLON BRANCH 



OF THE 



ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY, 



1881. ~ , 

 



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

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

 Inhabitants of the Island, with its Geology, Mineralogy, its Climate 

 and Meteorology, its Botany and Zoology," 



COLOMBO: 

 GEORGE J. A. SKEEX, GOVERNMENT rR INTER, C EYLON. 



VOL. VII. PART I. 



No. 23. 



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