A View of the Agricultural, Commercial, and Financial Interests of Ceylon: With an Appendix Containing Some of the Principal Laws and Usages of the Candians, Port and Custom-house Regulations, Table of Exports and Imports, Public Revenue and Expenditure, &c. &c |
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INTRODUCTION | 1 |
the Administration of Ceylon is transferred from the EastIndia | 45 |
and 1813The distress relieved by the wise measures adop | 83 |
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amonam amount arack arreca Arreca-nuts balance balance of trade Batticalo Bertolacci bills boats British Candian territory candy Cardamom cent Ceylon Government Ceylon Merchants Ceylonese chanks charges Chilaw cinnamon Civil servants cloth coast cocoa-nut trees coin coir collected Colombo Colonial Government consequence considerable continent of India copper Coromandel Coromandel coast cultivation currency Custom-house derived districts Dutch Government East-India Company employed established exchange exported coastways fanams favour fishery fixed gardens Governor grain granted Head-men inhabitants interests island Jaffna Jaffnapatam jagery labour land leager levied Majesty's Government Manar manufactured Matura measure ment mirra paddy pagodas paid Palmyra parrah persons Point de Galle Porto-Novo possession pound pound sterling produce profit provinces public revenue public servants quantity rent renters retail rice salt soil sold Spanish dollar star-pagoda stivers Table tenure tobacco toddy Total trade Travancore Trincomale vessels wastage