A Description of Ceylon: Containing an Account of the Country, Inhabitants, and Natural Productions (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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The narrative of the campaign of the British forces in the Candian territories in 1803 was compiled at Columbo from the information of the principal civil servants of government, and an ex tensive correspondence with respectable officers in the field. To it is added a medical report con cerning the health of the troops in the month of April of the same year by the superintendent of hospitals in Ceylon, whose observations throw a clear light on the nature of the climate and the diseases to which it is subject.

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