Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Volume 1 (of 2)

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The gratifying reception with which the following pages have been honoured by the public and the press, has in no degree lessened my consciousness, that in a work so extended in its scope, and comprehending such a multiplicity of facts, errors are nearly unavoidable both as to conclusions and detail. These, so far as I became aware of them, I have endeavoured to correct in the present, as well as in previous impressions.