JOURNAL 



OF THE 



CEYLON BBANCH 



OF THE 



ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY, 

 1881. 



VOL. VII. — PART II. 

 No. 24. 



"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: 

 FRANK LUKER, ACTING GOVERNMENT PRINTER, CEYLON. 



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