Drawn by J. Cordiner

Fort
Pert of Columbo

Publida 4 June to07 by My Longman, Hurst Rees & Orme, Paternoster Rose London

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DESCRIPTION

OF

CEYLON,

CONTAINING

AN ACCOUNT OF THE COUNTRY, INHABITANTS,

AND

NATURAL PRODUCTIONS;

WITH

NARRATIVES OF A TOUR ROUND THE ISLAND IN 1800, THE
CAMPAIGN IN CANDY IN 1803, AND A JOURNEY
TO RAMISSERAM IN 1804.

ILLUSTRATED BY

Twenty-five Engravings from Original Drawings.

By the Reverend JAMES CORDINER, A. M.

LATE CHAPLAIN TO THE GARRISON OF COLUMBO.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, AND ORME, PATERNOSTER ROW;

AND A. BROWN, ABERDEEN.

1807.