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====Historical books online====
*''Life in the Jungle or Letters from a Coffee-Planter in Ceylon to his cousin Cousin in London'' by Sampson Brown. ''Simmond's Colonial Magazine and Foreign Miscellany, Volumes 10 and 11'' 1847. Google Books and Hathi Trust. First published as a book in Colombo 1845 (109 pages), available at the [[British Library]]. [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=2YkVAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA13 Page 13], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=2YkVAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA150 page 150], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=2YkVAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA323 page 323], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=2YkVAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA376 page 376], [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015062925592?urlappend=%3Bseq=22 page 14], [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015062925592?urlappend=%3Bseq=163 page 155], [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015062925592?urlappend=%3Bseq=406 page 401]. First published as a book in Colombo 1845 under a slightly different title: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YZdeAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP9 ''Life in the Jungle or Letters from a Planter to his Cousin in London''] Google Books. (Print quality is poorer in the latter version).
*[https://archive.org/stream/ceylonaccountofi02tenn#page/222/mode/2up "Gampola and the Coffee Regions"] page 222 ''Ceylon: An Account of the Island, Physical, Historical, and Topographical, with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume II'' by Sir James Emerson Tennent 4th edition, thoroughly revised 1860. Includes [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]
*[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=WBYAAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=coffe+southern+india#v=onepage&q=&f=false ''A Handbook to coffee planting in Southern India''] by John Shortt (1864). Particularly useful for its list of coffee planters on the Shevaroy and Niligiri Hills and descriptions of these estates (pages 164-176) Google Books
