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... period the most important and interesting in the history of the island . The interior , which for centuries had been mysteriously hidden from the Portuguese and Dutch , was suddenly opened to 1 An Account of the Island of Ceylon , & c ...
... period the most important and interesting in the history of the island . The interior , which for centuries had been mysteriously hidden from the Portuguese and Dutch , was suddenly opened to 1 An Account of the Island of Ceylon , & c ...
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... period of my departure from Ceylon at the close of 1849. These , besides their inherent interest , will , I trust , stimulate others to engage in the same pursuits ; by exhibiting the chasms , which it still re- mains for future ...
... period of my departure from Ceylon at the close of 1849. These , besides their inherent interest , will , I trust , stimulate others to engage in the same pursuits ; by exhibiting the chasms , which it still re- mains for future ...
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... relation to the Mediaval History of Ceylon , and the period embraced 1 Oriental Monachism , 8vo . London , 1850 ; and A Manual of Buddhism , Svo . London , 1853 . by the narrative of the Greek , Arabian , and xxxvi INTRODUCTION .
... relation to the Mediaval History of Ceylon , and the period embraced 1 Oriental Monachism , 8vo . London , 1850 ; and A Manual of Buddhism , Svo . London , 1853 . by the narrative of the Greek , Arabian , and xxxvi INTRODUCTION .
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... period ; no record of it exists in the earliest writings of the Hindus , the Arabians , or Persians ; who , had the tradition survived , would eagerly have chronicled a catastrophe so appalling.1 Geologic analogy , so far as an ...
... period ; no record of it exists in the earliest writings of the Hindus , the Arabians , or Persians ; who , had the tradition survived , would eagerly have chronicled a catastrophe so appalling.1 Geologic analogy , so far as an ...
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... period , the rest having been engulfed by the sea.4 1 PTOLEMY , lib . vii . c . 4 . 2 ARRIAN , Periplus , p . 35. Mar- cianus Heracleotra ( whose Periplus has been reprinted by HUDSON , in the same collection from which I have made the ...
... period , the rest having been engulfed by the sea.4 1 PTOLEMY , lib . vii . c . 4 . 2 ARRIAN , Periplus , p . 35. Mar- cianus Heracleotra ( whose Periplus has been reprinted by HUDSON , in the same collection from which I have made the ...
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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.