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CEYLOJf.
CHAPTER XV.
CEYLON.
Production!—Colombo—Trincomalec—Point de Galle—Kandy
—Climate—Population.
Although this beautiful island forms no part of
India proper, and is not included in the possessions
of the East India Company, it nevertheless deserves
notice at our hands, from its importance and its situa-
tion.
Lying to the extreme south of the Indian Peninsula?
it is 270 to 280 miles in length (N. to S.), and 140
miles in breadth. The land contiguous to the sea is
flat, varying from eight to thirty miles in breadth; the
interior of the -country is mountainous. The former
has long been the property of the English, the latter
constituted the kingdom of Candy, but is now ruled
by us.
The vegetable productions of Ceylon are numerous
and valuable. Besides the ordinary produce of tropical
climates, no country in the world yields such a vast
number of cocoa-nut trees, or such quantities of cin-
namon and coffee. The Palmyra palm and the areca-
CEYLOJf.
CHAPTER XV.
CEYLON.
Production!—Colombo—Trincomalec—Point de Galle—Kandy
—Climate—Population.
Although this beautiful island forms no part of
India proper, and is not included in the possessions
of the East India Company, it nevertheless deserves
notice at our hands, from its importance and its situa-
tion.
Lying to the extreme south of the Indian Peninsula?
it is 270 to 280 miles in length (N. to S.), and 140
miles in breadth. The land contiguous to the sea is
flat, varying from eight to thirty miles in breadth; the
interior of the -country is mountainous. The former
has long been the property of the English, the latter
constituted the kingdom of Candy, but is now ruled
by us.
The vegetable productions of Ceylon are numerous
and valuable. Besides the ordinary produce of tropical
climates, no country in the world yields such a vast
number of cocoa-nut trees, or such quantities of cin-
namon and coffee. The Palmyra palm and the areca-