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" JOURNAL * 







OF THE 







CEYLON BRANCH 







OF THE 







ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY, 







*" v '- ... .. . 1885. -V 







VOL. IX.-PART I. 







no. 30. r^^\ 















" 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 of the Island, with its Geology, Mineralogy, its Climate and 

 Meteorology, its Botany and Zoology." 



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



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