No. 63. — 1910.] KANDYAN PROVINCES. 
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the Seven Korales, tJva, Matale, Sabaragamuwa, the Three 
Korales, Walapane, Udapalata, Nuwarakalawiya, Wellassa, 
Bintenna, and Tamankaduwa. The other nine districts were 
respectively under the authority of Chiefs who, except the last 
two, were distinguished by the name of Ratemahatmayas. 
They were Udunuwara, Yatinuwara, Tumpane, Harispattuwa , 
Dumbara, Hewaheta, Kotmale, Uda Bulatgama, and Pata 
Bulatgama (p. 17). 
III. 
The term Kandyan Provinces, as distinct from Maritime 
Provinces, was used by the British Government to designate 
the Provinces of the Kandyan Kingdom. See, e.g.. Order in 
Council of April 12, 1832, published at p. 371 of vol. I. of the 
Legislative Acts of the Ceylon Government, 1853, where the 
terms Maritime Provinces and Kandyan Provinces are con- 
trasted. 
The boundary between the Maritime districts acquired by 
the British at the capitulation of Colombo in 1796, and the 
Dominions of the Sinlaalese Monarchy ceded to the King of 
Great Britain by the Convention of 1815, had been clearly 
defined by a Treaty between the Sinhalese Government and 
the Dutch East India Company in the Saka year 1688, 
equivalent to 1766 a.d. 
The material portions of that Treaty* are as follows : — 
" Second Article. — The illustrious Lord Emperor, and the 
illustrious the principal members of His Majesty's Great 
Council of Ministers recognize the States 
General of the United Provinces and the Company of 
Hollanders (in the East) as the rightful and independent over- 
lord (eoa^gd^S^j^cs) of the several districts of this Island of 
Lanka, which had been held by the Company before the war 
now concluded, to wit, Yapa Pattanama, the districts thereto 
belonging, Hettikula Pattuwa, Mannarama, with the places 
* The Treaty in the original Sinhalese appears in vol. 16 of the 
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Ceylon (p. 62 et seq.), with a 
translation by Mr. H. C. P. Bell, first published in the Orientalist, 
vol. 3, p. 115. The translation given above differs slightly from 
Mr. Bell's. 
