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neighbourhood of Jaffnapatam, and is founded on chapter 

 XLV. of Baldseus. 1 In Book II. there are twenty -three chap- 

 ters, against twenty-eight in the original. As far as chapter 

 XVIII. the chapters in the two versions correspond ; but chap- 

 ter XX. of the Portuguese is included in chapter XIX. of the 

 French ; chapters XXI. and XXII. in chapter XX.; chapters 

 XXIII., XXIV,, and XXV. Portuguese in chapter XXI. 

 French ; chapter XXVI. Portuguese becomes chapter XXII. 

 French, and chapter XXVII. Portuguese chapter XXIII. 

 French. (The abbreviations which the chapters have under- 

 gone I shall notice afterwards.) In Book III. the state of 

 affairs is almost worse, for the whole of the first seven chapters 

 of the Portuguese have disappeared, and chapter I. French 

 contains chapters VIII. and IX. Portuguese ; chapter II. 

 French comprising chapter X. Portuguese. Beside the letter- 

 press, Le Grand's book had seven copperplate engravings by 

 Berey, viz., one of the cinnamon and one of the talipot, and 

 plans of Colombo, Galle, Kandy, Trincomalee, and Mannar, 

 the one of Colombo being specially poor. But it also con- 

 tained an excellent (for that period) map of Ceylon by De 

 l'lsle, which is a marked contrast to the one found in the 

 manuscript from which the Lisbon edition of Ribeiro was 

 printed, and of which a miniature copy is given in Tennent. 

 Now as to the Amsterdam edition of Le Grand. It is, as the 

 title-page states, a reprint of the Trevoux edition, the correc- 

 tions given in the Errata of the latter having been embodied in 

 the text. So slavishly has the reprinter followed the original, 

 that at chapter XXV. he has repeated the paging 187-90, 

 though there was no necessity to do so, unless to make the 

 pagination correspond with that of the earlier editions, which, 

 however, it fails to do exactly. 2 



1 This chapter was evidently written by Le G-rand after the rest of the 

 book was printed, for it is printed on thinner paper than that used else- 

 where, and the paging 187-90 is repeated. 



2 A later edition issued at Trevoux in 1707 I have not seen ; but one 

 published at Amsterdam in 1719 is simply the 1701 Amsterdam edition 

 with a new title-page, the publishers being Duvillard & Changuion. 



