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*[https://archive.org/details/oldceylonsketche00capp ''Old Ceylon, Sketches of Ceylon Life in the Olden Time''] by John Capper 1877 Archive.org. Generally refers to a period 30 to 40 years prior ie c 1840s
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=j9ENAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR1 ''The History of Ceylon from the Earliest Period to the Present Time: With an Appendix, Containing an Account of Its Present Condition''] by William Knighton 1845 Google Books. [https://archive.org/details/historyceylonfr01kniggoog Archive.org version]
*''Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society'': [https://archive.org/search.php?query=Ceylon%20Asiatic%20Society Archive.org] Multiple volumes from Volume 1 1845. [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000638474 Hathi Trust] multiple volumes including '''restricted access''', some of which, to c 1923, are probably available to those in North America. Multiple volumes as [http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/discover?filtertype_1=title&filter_relational_operator_1=contains&filter_1=Ceylon&filtertype_2=title&filter_relational_operator_2=contains&filter_2=Asiatic&submit_apply_filter=&query=&rpp=100&sort_by=dc.date.issued_dt&order=asc pdf downloads, Digital Library of India] to 1928 (broken range).
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=YJdeAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP7 ''Ceylon, Past and Present''] by Sir George Barrow 1857 Google Books.
*''Ceylon: An Account of the Island, Physical, Historical, and Topographical, with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions'' by Sir James Emerson Tennent 4th edition, thoroughly revised 1860 [https://archive.org/details/ceylonaccountofi01tenn Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/ceylonaccountofi02tenn Volume II] Volume II includes [https://archive.org/stream/ceylonaccountofi02tenn#page/222/mode/2up "Gampola and the Coffee Regions"] page 222 and [https://archive.org/stream/ceylonaccountofi02tenn#page/n261/mode/1up Map of Coffee Estates] which requires strong magnification. Additional versions of the same map [http://dfg-viewer.de/show/?tx_dlf%5Bid%5D=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de%2Fitems%2FOU3XZDEXKDCEQK5BRSGHQSDAXEEOVKCN%2Fsource&tx_dlf%5Bpage%5D=257&tx_dlf%5Bdouble%5D=0&cHash=6f7d2008dc9ab7311e5a14ac69f24de9 Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek], [http://digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/werkansicht/?PPN=PPN669705136&DMDID=DMDLOG_0016 Staatsbibliothek Berlin]
