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1831 Aug
Cordiner's Ceylon – Notes to

At Columbo burial
ground under the great
Hall. Page 35 or 36

Dutch freemasons
lodge erected P37

Native orphants bred
up taught English,
and as native clearks.
Page 39.

Now all over india plaster'd
with cow dung
for its uses. Page 41.

Women dust plaster
neck face and arms.
Page 41.

Garding interdust
by Lieut. General Macdowall.
Page 46.

Batavin law in Ceylon
well spoken of. P.67

Salts view in Columbo.
P.67.

p.106
Botanical knowledge
universal – this
the only occupation.

p 107
Waste vegetables
regularly burnt.
Cow-dung burnt for
fuel in preference

p 100
Dutch oppression purveyorship
abolished
by English.

p 112 or 113
the native but one
wife and devoted her
there.

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p.118 – Almanacks with
predictions.

p 119. Cingalese alphabet
exceedingly complicated.
Language peculiar to
poetry & understood by few.

p.120. Most men can read
& write – women not.
Proclamations published in 4
languages.

p.121. Cingalese grammar
in Dutch extant. In
English then making (1807)

p.132.
Territory Candians no
part ferther than six
miles from the sea.

p.144
Malays 1000 converted into
good orderly soldiers by
British; otherwise under Dutch

p.155, 6
Island divided into 4 provinces
– provinces into
counties, counties into
parishes, in each of which
a protestant school.

p.156
An academy for qualifing
natives for offical
situations.

p.156.
Parishes with register
with marriages births
and deaths.

p.157.
Visitation of the
school monthly.

p.157.
Like Annual visitation
of the Parish
priest by their superior N. Bleaster
way under the
dutch government.

p.158.
Religious worship
and school examination.
1.

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Under military
conquerors for three
years the schools &c
were neglected. By Ao
1798 By Honble Frederick
North first
Civil Governor they
were revived with
improvements.

p.160
Ecclesiastical and
instructional visitation
circuits.

p 161
Superior orders of Cingalese
greedy of instruction.

p 162
They serve as interpreters
for the government
functionaries.

p 163
Anno 1801, parish schools
170 – Native Protestants
342000 &
more – Roman
Catholics more numerous.

False evidence common
in the lower
orders – scarce exemplified
in the higher

p 164
Polyandria common
up to 7 – Polygipria
not.

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p.165
Anno 1803, the allowance
for religious
and other instruction
nearly suppressed.

p.173.
Tax on jewels a prohibition
on the attendance
at school.

p.174
Judicial business finished
in one day without
unpleasant circumstances.

Teak trees wild and
uncultivated.

p 175
Rivers connected by
canals.

Oyster beds at Bentot, like
English

p.177
Climate sufficiently
cool and delightful –
Fahrenheit 72° to
86°.

p.178
Charitable establishments
– Committee
appointed for superintendence:
Indigent Relief
Minister's business.

p 181
Beautiful coral in
great plenty.

p 184
Dutch for villas prefer
low prospectless swamps.

p 182

Identifier: | JB/149/274/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 149.
Date_1	1831-08	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	149	Main Headings
Folio number	274	Info in main headings field	davy's ceylon - notes to cordiner's ceylon - notes to
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