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 |
which retard the increase of produce in grainEncouragement | 11 |
BOOK 1 | 143 |
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agriculture 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 Choya cinnamon Civil servants cloth coast coin coir collected Colombo Colonial Government commerce consequence considerable continent of India copper Coromandel Coromandel coast cultivation currency Custom-house derived districts Dutch Government duties East-India Company employed established exchange fanams favour fishery fixed gardens Governor grain granted Head-men imported inhabitants interests island Jaffna Jaffnapatam jagery labour land leager levied Manar manufactured Matura measure ment pagodas paid Palmyra parrah persons Point de Galle population Porto-Novo possession pound pound sterling produce profits provinces public revenue public servants quantity rent renters retail rice rix-dollars salt silver soil sold Spanish dollar star-pagoda stivers Table tobacco toddy Total trade Travancore Trincomale vessels wastage whole