ADVERTISEMENT. 
In presenting a Second Edition of the Account of Ceylon to 
the Public, the author feels himself called upon to express his 
grateful sense of the favourable reception which his zvork has ex- 
perienced, and the liberal manner in ivhich it has been criticised. 
To render it still more luorthy of the public acceptance, he has 
endeavoured, in the second edition, to correct such error's as had 
inadvertently found their ivay into the first. He has also been at 
pains to procure such additional irrformation as might tend to 
throw light on the history or the state of Ceylon ; and he is 
happy to inform his reader's that he has succeeded in procuring 
several particidars of importance. The history of its^ most con- 
spicuous native princes, both previous and subsequent to the ar- 
rival of the Europeans, has been inserted from an authentic docu- 
ment: and in order to render its history as complete as possible 
down to the present time, an Appendix has been subjoined 
containing the most important particular's of the late hostilities 
ivith the King of Candy. 
By the favour of several gentlemen connected ivith our civil and 
militar'y establishments in Ceylon, the author has been, enabled to 
embellish the present Edition with some Engravings, ivhich will 
serve to convey to the reader a clearer idea of several ch'cum- 
sfances relative to the situation and manners of the country. 
