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Chapter III. 

 The Products of the Land. 



Cinnamon and disorders of the Chalias. About the conservation 

 of the cinnamon trees more may be seen from the report of the 

 Dessave Cramer and the annexures of the officer of the Mahabedde 

 Leembruggen dated April 24, 1756, as well as that of the Sworn 

 Land Surveyor of February 3, 1757. [This last may well be 

 De Bevere, who was then at the head of his class.] 



Abraham Samlant [who superseded Lebeck] is here mentioned 

 as being Upper Merchant and Chief Administrator. 



The pearl reefs (4 pages folio). 

 The blood coral. 

 Maldivian cowries. 



The Ceylon cardamom. 

 Pepper cultivation 

 Coffee cultivation. 



Section IV. 



Internal affairs. 

 Religion : 



Jansz and De Melho (Jaffna). 



De Silva (Trincomale). 



Bronsveld, Sybrands, Meyer (qualifying at the Seminary). 

 Wirlmelskircher (Rector of School). 



Potken, Smith, Schultze (Predikants at Colombo and Galle). 



The printing press : catalogue of printed books. 



The Courts of Justice. 



The fortifications and artillery. 



The Navy. 



Income and expenditure. 



4. His Excellency the Governor : Does any gentleman wish 

 to speak on the papers which have just been delivered ? If there 

 is no discussion I would ask the President to read a paper on 

 " Prehistoric Man and Stone Implements in Ceylon." 



5. The President (Mr. Ferguson) introduced Mr. Pole's 

 paper by saying : I am not a geologist, and indeed know very 

 little on the subject of the stone age and prehistoric remains. But 

 one of the greatest authorities in India, Mr. Bruce Foote, F.G.S., 

 has been in communication with Mr. Pole, and has expressed great 

 interest in his work as a collector. I am not sure that he has seen 

 more than diagrams from Mr. Pole as yet ; but we have the fact 

 that the Drs. Sarasin so prized Mr. Pole's first collection of stone 

 implements that they asked him to take them to Europe. For- 

 tunately Mr. Pole was able to duplicate the collection, and he has 

 favoured us with a series of specimens and certain notes on the 

 same. I think it was before he left the East that Lord Curzon 

 related how a friend of his examined the arrows in the quiver of a 

 native hunter in India. He found that the first arrow was tipped 

 with stone of the neolithic age, but that the next was tipped with 

 electric telegraph wire — a theft from the 20th century. There is 

 no case here of such modern application, but Mr. Bruce Foote, 

 judging by the diagrams, says the collection shows a type of 



flake production," quite distinct from that hitherto met with in 

 Southern and Western India. I will now read from the notes : — 



