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... raja . - Square - stemmed Vine Gigantic climbing Plants Enormous bean CHAP . III . VEGETATION . - TREES AND PLANTS . The Flora of Ceylon imperfectly known Vegetation similar to that of India and the Eastern Archipelago . Trees of the ...
... raja . - Square - stemmed Vine Gigantic climbing Plants Enormous bean CHAP . III . VEGETATION . - TREES AND PLANTS . The Flora of Ceylon imperfectly known Vegetation similar to that of India and the Eastern Archipelago . Trees of the ...
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... RAJA KARIYA . Population encouraged by the fertility of Ceylon Evidence of its former extent in the ruins of the tanks and canals . Means by which the population was preserved Causes of its dispersion - the ruin of the tanks Domestic ...
... RAJA KARIYA . Population encouraged by the fertility of Ceylon Evidence of its former extent in the ruins of the tanks and canals . Means by which the population was preserved Causes of its dispersion - the ruin of the tanks Domestic ...
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... Raja , 100,000 large towns , 970 fishers ' villages , and 400 villages in- habited by pearl fishers , making to- gether eleven - twelfths of the terri- tory of Kalany , were swallowed up by the sea . " — Rajavali , vol . ii . p . 180 ...
... Raja , 100,000 large towns , 970 fishers ' villages , and 400 villages in- habited by pearl fishers , making to- gether eleven - twelfths of the terri- tory of Kalany , were swallowed up by the sea . " — Rajavali , vol . ii . p . 180 ...
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... raja , which is often found growing along with it , called by the Singhalese iri raja , or " striped king . ' Its leaves are somewhat bronzed , but they are longer and narrower than those of the wanna raja ; and , as its } Singhalese ...
... raja , which is often found growing along with it , called by the Singhalese iri raja , or " striped king . ' Its leaves are somewhat bronzed , but they are longer and narrower than those of the wanna raja ; and , as its } Singhalese ...
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... venomous till after the species of the cobra ; the raja , or thirteenth day , when they shed their king ; the velyander , or trader ; the coat for the first time . - three feet long , and so purely white as to 192 [ PART II . ZOOLOGY .
... venomous till after the species of the cobra ; the raja , or thirteenth day , when they shed their king ; the velyander , or trader ; the coat for the first time . - three feet long , and so purely white as to 192 [ PART II . ZOOLOGY .
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abundance Adam's Peak amongst Anarajapoora ancient Anim appear Asiat Báhu Batticaloa birds Blyth Boisd Brahmans Brug Buddha Buddhist century Ceylon Chemn coast cobra coco-nut Colombo colour Conch Cram cultivation dagoba described ditto Dohrn Dutugaimunu early eastern European exhibit Fabr feet fish flowers forests frequent gneiss Gray Guén Hagen Helic hills Hist Horsf Hübn Icon inches India inhabitants insects island Jaffna jungle Kandy Kandyan Kelaart king labour land larvæ Latr Layard Leach Linn Maha Mahawanso Malabar Méth Monog monsoon mountains natives Neuera-ellia Niet Pali Pasc peculiar period Pfeiff plants portion present priests Proc rain Raja Rajaratnacari Rajavali Reeve reign resembling rivers rocks Rohuna sacred shells Singhalese species Steph Syst tanks Taprobane temples tion Tissa trees Trincomalie TURNOUR'S Epitome vegetation Vert wanderoo Westw whilst wiharas Wijayo wind wood Zool
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Page 519 - And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither; so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.