A View of the Agricultural, Commercial, and Financial Interests of Ceylon: With an Appendix, Containing Some of the Principal Laws and Usages of the Canadians; Port and Custom-house Regulations, &c |
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Page 577 - Sketshe.i of India ; or, Observations descriptive of the Scenery, &c. in Bengal: written in India, in the Years 1811, 12, 13, 14; together with Notes on the Cape of Good Hope, and St. Helena, written at those Places in February, March, and April, 1815.
Page 241 - The selling or giving away the smallest quantity of cinnamon (even were it but a single stick), the exporting of it, the peeling of the bark, extracting the oil either from that or the leaves, or the camphor from the roots, except by the servants of...
Page 577 - Medical, Geographical, and Agricultural Report of a Committee appointed by the Madras Government to inquire into the Causes of the Epidemic Fever, which prevailed in the Provinces of Coimbatore, Madura, Dindigul, and Tinnivelly, during the years 1809, 1810, and 1811, of which Dr.
Page 458 - Forbearance ; viz. not being angry at faults before they have been well inquired into. 10. Impartiality; viz. shewing no undue preference to any one. The system of conduct which a King ought to observe, was preached by Boodho, in the great city of Wesala, in Dambodiva, in .the great temple of Sarandada, to the King of the same city, whose name was Letcharvi, as may be seen in the books entitled Dik Sangi. Q. What is the nature of the judicial process in Ceylon ? and how are the Courts of Justice...
Page 577 - An Account of the Abolition of Female Infanticide in Guzerat, with Considerations on the Question of Promoting the Gospel in India.
Page 431 - ... the natives whom they are called to govern; spend four or five years, before Government can, with confidence, place them in responsible civil or judicial employments, where they commence to be useful. But nearly one-half of their time of service is then passed; and they shortly after begin to look with anxiety to the time of their retreat with a pension, and the termination of their exile, from all that, in their sight, conveys the ideas of comfort and happiness; namely, a more congenial climate,...
Page 14 - ... present inhabitants are far removed. That part of this majestic work particularly deserves attention, where, by a parapet of nearly 150 feet breadth in the base, and thirty in the summit, two hills are made to join, in order to encompass, and keep in, the water of this lake. In this part of the parapet, arches are to be seen; and over these, in the work which is under the level of the water, an opening is made, entirely resembling those used by the Romans in some of the Lakes in Italy; which...
Page 279 - The chain of duties and services which was there established, binding every class, and every individual, from the highest to the lowest rank, was the great moving machine, applied to enforce the civil and judicial administration of Government, to regulate the pursuits of agriculture, or to carry on an offensive or defensive war...
Page 143 - ... mirra, however, must be strained when it is placed in the boiling-pot, and the bark of the hall-gass taken off. To make the jagery, it only requires to boil the mirra upon a slow fire, until it acquires consistency, and turns of a whitish hue. It must, in the mean time, be kept constantly stirring, and have the scum taken from it. When it has acquired the consistency of cream, a small quantity of jagery, already hardened, is put into the pot, and melted with a spoon : the liquid is then poured...