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CEYLON GAZETTEER:

CONTAINING

AN ACCURATE ACCOUNT

OF THE

DISTRICTS, PROVINCES, CITIES, TOWNS. PRINCIPAL
VILLAGES, HARBOURS, RIVERS, LAKES, &c,

OF THE

ISLAND OF CEYLON:

TOGETHER WITH

SKETCHES OF THE MANNERS, CUSTOMS,

INSTITUTIONS, AGRICULTURE, COMMERCE, MANUFAC-

TURES, REVENUES,

POPULATION, CASTES, RELIGION, HISTORY,

OF ITS

VARIOUS INHABITANTS.

BY

SIMON CASIE CHITTY, MODLIAR.

Ceylon:

COTTA CHURCH MISSION PRESS,

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THE RIGHT HONORABLE

SIR ROBERT J. WILMOT HORTON, G. C. H.

GOVERNOR AND COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF CEYLON.

SIR,

AVAILING myself of your Excellency's kind permission, I have the honour of dedicating to you the accompanying Gazetteer of the Island of Ceylon, over the interests of which you happily preside. Short as has been the period of your administration, many are the benefits resulting to the Colony; and you have already earned amongst us a popularity unequalled by any of your predecessors. Accept then this unworthy production, as a token of the reverence in which your enlightened and liberal government is held, and as an humble tribute of the gratitude of an individual for the numerous beneficent measures which you have adopted-and which we may believe you will continue to do- for a meliorating the condition of the natives, and ultimately to raise them. in the scale of society.

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In the earnest hope that you may be blessed with health long to continue an administration so happily commenced, and when, in the course of events, you shall return to your native shores, that may you long enjoy the happiness resulting from the conviction that you live in the memory of the thousands whom you have governed and benefited,

I beg to subscribe myself, with most profound regard,

Your Excellency's

Most obedient and humble servant,

Carpentyn, April 1, 1833,

SIMON CASIE CHITTY.

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