Ceylon: An Account of the Island Physical, Historical and Topographical, Band 2

Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, 1859 - 655 Seiten

namon	5

Possibility of restoring the ruined	7

Despotic acts of Raja Singha II	48

Active commerce of the Moors	53

Other exports	55

not pay its own expenses	61

Coincidence of the captivity of	65

List of the petty principalities	73

Internal anatomy imperfectly known 311	423

Effects of its diversion into the Vergel	424

The siege raised and death of Raja	434

Why necessary in the north and	463

Sentiments of the native population 435	469

The road from Colombo to Kandy	472

Historical evidences	475

Obscure origin of the tank	480

Reform of the Civil Government	77

Designs of the Adigar disclosed	84

CHAPTER I	99

The Fort	105

Its national importance	113

Tangalle and Hambantotte	114

Galle and Colombo mail	120

Cocoa de	126

Various traditions	133

note	139

The Galle Face	147

Commodore Koster killed	153

England slow to enter the Indian	160

17	172

146	182

153	193

Its historical associations	196

18	199

42	229

note 19	234

Destruction of the temple at Dondra	245

Duties of a botanic officer	250

Derivation of the word elephant	271

The Wanny and its history	276

CHAP III	287

Peculiar movements when reposing	312

Native ideas of perfection in an ele	328

CHAP IV	335

Preparations for securing the cap	378

First captive tied	385

Gampola and its antiquities	391

43	394

Grandeur of the scene	398

CHAPTER I	407

Power of climbing mountains	415

442	482

Discouraged by the Dutch	487

Cottawelle	489

Its pearls	492

43	496

Coffee found at Kandy in 1815	501

Singular tameness	512

note 43	517

Geologic formation of Jaffna	518

Economic uses of the palmyra	524

Tobacco	534

21	536

Systematic culture introduced by	537

Rapid success of the experiment	543

The baobab trees at Manaar	549

Enormous accumulations of shells	557

Camels tried to be domesticated note 181	564

SIGIRI AND POLLANARUA	569

Wimala	572

Visits to the north in consequence	575

The ruins unknown to the Portuguese	580

moment	582

Singular mode of lighting the statue	593

A colony of paroquets	599

222	612

Importance of Ceylon to their trade	615

Its extraordinary size	622

607	630

Portuguese besieged in	638

226	641

229	647

Ornamental arts of its inhabitants	648

25	650

Mistakes relative to bridges in Ceylon 574	655

Titel	Ceylon: An Account of the Island Physical, Historical and Topographical, Band 2 Ceylon: An Account of the Island Physical, Historical and Topographical, James Emerson Tennent
Autor/in	James Emerson Tennent
Verlag	Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, 1859
Original von	Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
Digitalisiert	11. Febr. 2010
Länge	655 Seiten

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