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*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=WK8-AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA44 "Ceylon"] page 54 ''The New Universal Traveller: Containing a Full and Distinct Account of All the Empires, Kingdoms, and States, in the Known World'' by J Carver 1779 Google Books
*[https://archive.org/stream/b28774723_0001#page/182/mode/2up "Ceylon"] page 183 ''The View of Hindoostan. Volume I Western Hindoostan'' by Thomas Pennant 1798 Archive.org.
*''An account of the Island of Ceylon : containing its history, geography, natural history, with the manners and customs of its various inhabitants; to which is added, the journal of an embassy to the court of Candy'' by Robert Percival of HM 19th Regiment of Foot. [https://archive.org/details/accountislandce00perc/page/n1/mode/2up 1st edition 1803]; [https://archive.org/details/accountofislando00perc/page/n5/mode/2up 2nd edition 1805] ''with an Appendix containing some Particulars of the recent Hostilities with the King of Candy''. Author is described of H M 18th or Royal Irish Regiment. Archive.org
*''A description of Ceylon, containing an account of the country, inhabitants, and natural productions: with narratives of a tour round the island in 1800, the campaign in Candy in 1803, and a journey to Ramisseram in 1804. Illustrated by twenty-five engravings from original drawings'' by Rev James Cordiner, late Chaplain to the Garrison of Columbo. 1807 Google Books. [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=I0g7AQAAIAAJ&pg=PP5 Volume 1], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=4Uc7AQAAIAAJ&pg=PP9 Volume II] The author was in Ceylon 1799-1804
:There are chapters on Ceylon from [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=CTVSAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA139 page 139] ''A Voyage To India'' by Rev James Cordiner 1820 Google Books The author was in Ceylon 1799-1804.
