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An Historical Relation Of The Island Ceylon In The East Indies

PART IV
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This Place described.] To Anarodgburro therefore we came, called also Neur Waug.

Which is not so much a particular single Town, as a Territory.

It is a vast great Plain, the like I never saw in all that Island: in the midst whereof is a Lake, which may be a mile over, not natural, but made by art, as other Ponds in the Country, to serve them to water their Corn Grounds.

This Plain is encompassed round with Woods, and small Towns among them on every side, inhabited by Malabars, a distinct People from the Chingulayes.

But these Towns we could not see till we came in among them.


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