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JO URN A I, 



OF THE 



CEYLON BRANCH 



OF TEE 



ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY, 



1885. 



VOL. IX.— PART II. 

 No. 31. 



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

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

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

 Meteorology^its-^p^^ry ^d Zoology." 



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COLOMBO : 



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



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