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A Defcripion of C E Y L O N. 
The Fm- 
vince 
Waddc- 
marache. 
The Church 
Cdtavelli. 
* adjacent Houle of Stone, unto which you 
afcend by iteps *, it has three large Apart- 
ments, a neat Entrance, and a fair Pro- 
fped. Hereabouts are great numbers of 
Peacocks, and fometimes they fee fome 
Elephants in this Trad of Land. The 
Company alfo maintains here fome tame 
Elephants, as in divers other places, they 
being feparated at fome diftance for the 
better conveniency of their Fodder. Un- 
to this School belong about 650 Chil- 
dren, and to the Church 11 00 or 1200 
Auditors. 
The third Province is call'd Wadde- 
marache, having only three Churches. 
It affords fuch plenty of Pafture, of Cows, 
Sheep, Goats, Fowl, Pigeons, and Par- 
tridges, that you may buy a Sheep for 
Sd. or \od. 60 Eggs for 3 d. and four 
good Pullets for a Fanam, or 5 d. 
The firft Church is call'd Catavellii, 
the Church and adjacent Houfe are both 
of Brick, the laft having a Summer-houfe 
on the top of it, from whence you have 
a delightful Profpeft into the Plain. The 
School has 600 Children, and the Church 
loco or 1200 Auditors. 
Th; church 
Paretitttre^ 
The fecond Church hVre^utti, the 
Village is inhabited by a fet of Vaga- 
bonds and Thieves, of the Family of 
the NallocvSy not much inclin'd to Reli- 
gion. The School is frequented by 690 
Children, and the Church by 8 or 900 
Auditors lefs or more. The Children 
are taught here to make their Letters in 
the Sand. 
The Church Paretiture is the fineft and 
largeft of this Province, call'd by the Por- 
tuguefes, Pmta das Pedras^ or the Rocky 
Point. Paretiture fignifies in the Malabar 
Tongue as much as Cottons Harbour^ from 
the great quantity of Cotton that grows 
thereabouts on fmall Trees. Not long agOg 
whilft we were engag'd in War with 
the Englifhy a Fort was otder'd to be ered- 
ed here. During the War with Portugal^ 
the Dutch carried off from hence one of 
their Priefts, and plunder'd Manaar at 
the fame time. Hereabouts alfo happen'd 
a fmart Engagement betwixt thtPortu- 
guefes and us, wherein we were hard put 
to it, and loft among others Capt. John 
Hooghfaten. During the Siege of Jafna- 
patnam the Portugueses expefted the 
landing of their Succours in this place. 
The Road is fo good here^ that Ships 
A fmart 
betwixt 
the Portu- 
tugucfes 
and Dutch 
in thit 
place. 
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