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With An Account Of The Progress Made Since 1803, And Of The Present Condition Of Its Agricultural And Commercial Enterprises; The Resources Awaiting Development By Capitalists And The Unequalled Attractions Offered To Visitors.
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Excerpt from Ceylon in the "Jubilee Year" With an Account of the Progress Made Since 1803, and of the Present Condition of Its Agricultural and Commercial Enterprises; The Resources Awaiting Development by Capitalists; And the Unequalled Attractions Offered to Visitors This latter work has now been out of print for some time, and the author has been frequently urged to arrange for a third issue. It is appropriate that this revised and considerably enlarged edition should appear in the year of the Queen's Jubilee, as giving some account of what is the most important, whether in population or wealth, of Her Majesty's Crown Colonies, and bring ing the information, so far as it goes, down to the present date. Besides large additions to nearly all the chapters - more especially to those on Social and Legislative Progress, on Agricultural and Plant ing Industries, and on the future Government of Ceylon - a new chapter has been introduced dealing with the Life, Customs, Caste, and Occupations of the natives. Additions have also been made to the Appendix, more especially in reference to Missions, Caste, the Tea Industry, Statistical Information. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Plan & purpose - Island & people - Ante-Christian period - Ante-missionary period - Buddhism & demonism of our own day - Commencement of mission - Colombo - Colpetty - Negombo - Seedua - Minuangoda - Rillegalle - Kornegalle - Kandy - Wellewatta - Galkisse - Angulana - Morotto - Wattalpala - Pantura - Caltura - Amblamgoda - Galle - Belligam - Matura - Dondra - Our soldiers - Woman - Education - Press - Buddhist controversy - In memoriam - Conclusion - Addenda (inc. names of missionaries) - Inc. statistics.
