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CHAPTER XI. 
Hie liing of Candi/s dominions — Its divisions — Candy- — HigUggy 
Neur — Niiembij Neur — Anarodghiirro — Climate — Soil — Circtim- 
stances ivkicJi distinguish the Comdioms from the Cinglese. 
1 Have r.ow described the sea-coast of Ceylon and its inha- 
bitants. It is in these parts that we are principally to look 
for the riches and advantages to be derived from the island. 
The possession of the interior might tend to the security of 
our dominion and an improved mode of cultivation miglit 
^make it capable of maintaining a much greater number of in- 
habitants; but these purposes may be as effectually attained by 
a friendly intercourse with the natives, as by a direct submis- 
sion to our authority. Our government will doubtless avoid 
the error of the former European masters of Ceylon, who 
■wasted iinprofitably, in vain attempts to subdue the natives, 
that time and those resources which might have rendered this 
island one of the most valuable colonies in the world. 
In a detached island, such as Ceylon, if any where we might 
expect to find very little diversity in the natm’e of the country 
and the races by which it is inhabited ; and yet we are here 
presented with three different dominions governed by different 
laws, presenting the greatest variety of soil, climate, and culti- 
vation, and possessed by three distinct races which seem to 
have no original connexion with each other. In those parts 
■which I have already described the -whole tone of manners is 
