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The Asiatic Journal for December 1827

1827

It is said that in all the instrvions issued by King Emanuel for the guidance of his governors in the East a clause was inserted importing Let all India be 'ost so that Ceylon be saved :" and the eagerness with which the Dutch embraced the opportunity offered by the solicitations of the oppressed Cigalese to eject the Portuguese from the island at the expense of much blodd and money shows h [...] English mechanics and agriculturists arc totally unacquainted with the nature of the soil of Ceylon the character of the people the climate the productions the price of labour and the peculiar habits of labourers the various implements and a thousand minute particulars which it is absolutely necessary should be knows in order that emigration may be productive of advantage. [...] The geologists who visit the torrid zone have herein a subject well worthy of research." The discovery of fossil bones of the mammoth found bulled with remains of the rhinoceros ruminant animals and tortoises in the warm regions of Asia must be one of the most important facts which geology can furnish to the consideration of naturalists. [...] the former is at a hopeless distance for escape being But of the track of that class of ships by which the convicts might return to their native country.* With respect to the untameable and savage disposition evinced by the aborigines of Melville Island and of the contiguous oast of New Holland I would strongly recommend the adoption of the mess res pursued by Govenor Phillips at Port Jackso [...] The translation of the Scriptures into so many of the stern languages and dialects and the probability that they will be translat nto all in course of time leads us to expect that when the affinities of those languages are dicovered they will throw great light on the migrations of half the inhabitants of the globe.
history
Pages
132
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.120104
Segment Pages Author Actions
Ceylon
677-683 unknown view
Fossil Remains of the Mammbth in Ava
683-684 unknown view
Account of the Indian Sects of Jina and Buddha
685-690 H.T. Colebrooke view
Melville Island New Holland
691-692 unknown view
On the Origin of the Asiatic Dialects
693-694 unknown view
History of Confucius
695-700 unknown view
The Incantation of Hervor
701-703 unknown view
Modern Russia
704-714 unknown view
Singhalese Numbers
714-715 unknown view
Education of Cadets
716-718 unknown view
Observations on the Route to Europe by the Red Sea and Egypt
719-722 unknown view
Analysis of the Code of Menu
723-728 unknown view
Sir Edward Hyde East on the Judicial System of India
729-731 unknown view
Hindu Cremation
732-732 unknown view
Reviews of Books
733-748 unknown view
Proceedings of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
749-752 unknown view
Varieties
753-764 unknown view
Asiatic Intelligence
765-785 unknown view
Postscript to Asitic Intelligence
785-786 unknown view
Supplement to Asiatic Intelligence
786-794 unknown view
Home Intelligence
794-799 unknown view
Price Currency Nov 27
800-800 unknown view
Index
801-803 unknown view

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