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ENGLAND'S COLONIAL EMPIRE:

CEYLON

AND ITS DEPENDENCIES.

AN HISTORICAL,

POLITICAL AND STATISTICAL ACCOUNT

OF

CEYLON

AND ITS DEPENDENCIES.

BY

CHARLES PRIDHAM, Esq., B.A., F.R.G.S.

AUTHOR OF "HISTORY OF MAURITIUS," ETC.

Ἂν δὲ λέγωσιν ὡς οὐ δίκαιον τοὺς σφετέρους ἀποίκους ὑμᾶς, δέχεσθαι,
μαθέτωσαν, ὡς πᾶσα ἀποικία εὖ μὲν πάσχουσα τιμᾷ τὴν μητροπόλιν,
ἀδικουμένη δὲ ἀλλοτριοῦται· οὐ γὰρ ἐπὶ τῷ δοῦλοι, ἀλλ' ἐπὶ τῷ ὁμοῖοι τοῖς
λειπομένοις εἶναι ἐκπέμπονται.

Speech of the Corcyrean Ambassadors at Athens. Thucydides, Book I. Cap. 34.
Embassies from regions far remote,

From India and the Golden Chersonese,

And utmost Indian isle Taprobane. Hilton.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

T. AND W. BOONE, 29, NEW BOND STREET.

MDCCCXLIX.

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