Ceylon: A General Description of the Island, Historical, Physical, Statistical

This is a very informative work on Sri Lanka, being a general description of the island historical, physical and statistical. The book has 35 chapters on physical geography, ancient history, relation with the west, shipping vessels, Chinese voyages, Arab and Persian accounts, modern history, Colombo and its suburbs population, literature and arts, Buddhism, mammalia, birds, reptiles, insects, fish, crustacea and mollusca, pearls and fisheries, coffee, palms, cinnamon and botany. The book has an appendix on the Maldives.