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JOURNAL 



OF THE 



CEYLON BRANCH 



OF THE 



ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY. 



1882/ 



EXTRA No. 



EDITED BY THE HONORARY SECRETARY. 



" 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_andZoology. " 



■ '^y 



JAMES DUNC^^GA»BELL } PRINTER, 

 COLOMBO: 



1883. 



