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Excerpt from Ceylon: A General Description of the Island and Its Inhabitants; With an Historical Sketch of the Conquest of the Colony by the English December 1814 and, from 1816 till 1821, was the senior Medical Officer in the Kandyan provinces, being then staff-surgeon. With respect to the final conquest of the colony, the object of the Author has been chiefly to narrate facts and to record events, not to discuss the policy of the measure, or the merits of the means em ployed to that effect. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.