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3 NOV. 1909 



JOURNAL 



OF THE 



CEYLON BRANCH 



OF THE 



ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY, 



1907. 



VOLUME XIX 

 No. 59. 



EDITED BY THE HONORARY SECRETARY. 



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

 History, Religions, Languages, Literature, Arts, and Social Condition 

 of the present and former Inhabitants of the Island, with its 

 Geology and Mineralogy, its Climate and Meteorology, 

 its Botany and Zoology. 



Price : to Members, Re. 1 ; to N on- Members, Rs. 2. 



COLOMBO : 



H. C. COTTLE, GOVERNMENT PRINTER, CEYLON. 



1908. 



