NO. 52.— 1901.] DUTCH MONUMENTAL REMAINS. 



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This stone was placed by Mr. J. P. Lewis in Nupe Church, 

 Matara, and another stone placed next to it has the follow- 

 ing inscription : — 



HUNC LAPIDEM 

 QUONDAM VRELANDTII SATRAPIS 

 iEDIUM JAMPRIDEM OBRUTARUM 

 PARTEM CIS FLUMEN INVENTUM 

 HIC POSUIT J. P. L. A 1900. 



27 — Jaffna. 



Inscription on a granite slab about 3 feet by 2 feet in a 

 house in Jaffna : — 



HOE LANG IS DE EEUWIGHEID. 



Translation. — How long is eternity. 



Remarks. — See Ceylon Observer, 17th June, 1884, 19th 

 June, 1884, 26th June, 1884, according to which this stone 

 was removed in 1832 from the ruin of a house that used to 

 occupy the site of the present District Judge's house in 

 Jaffna. It is supposed to have been placed by a Doctor 

 Stutzer, whose son, an Ensign in one of the Ceylon Regiments 

 under the British, was shot through the heart by an arrow 

 while leading a reconnaisance into a defile during the first 

 invasion of the Kandyan territory by the British. The 

 correspondent says that he remembers the three daughters 

 of the old Doctor. One married Captain Thompson of the 

 16th Regiment, and another Colonel Thomas Cockrane of 

 the Ceylon Rifles. 



There were, I find, in Ceylon, a J. S. Stutzer, Colonial 

 Assistant Surgeon, Jaffna, 1817, and, in the same year, one 

 Charles Stutzer, Lieutenant, 1st Ceylon Regiment. 



28— TangaEIa. 



An inscription on a stone 2 feet by 1 foot 2 inches z— 

 A 1735 D° 

 FL« JANSZ 



