dens your eye, and you think with wonder of the vast possessions which have been conquered, and the immense tracts of country which have been peopled by the overflow of our little island.
Among the list of possessions, Ceylon is but a speck; nevertheless the act of settling in one colony is a fair sample of the general hardships of emigration. I shall therefore introduce a slight sketch of a settlement in Ceylon, which may give some insight into the little disappointments, inseparable from a new enterprise. The reader will, I trust, wander with me in my rambles through this lovely country, and endeavour to pass an idle hour among the scenes portrayed.