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TITLE: An Account of the Interior of Ceylon, and of its Inhabitants. With Travels in that Island
AUTHOR: John Davy
PUBLISHER: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
PLACE: London
YEAR: 1821
NO.OF PAGES: pp. viii, 530, illustrated with 13 plates, including 2 hand-coloured aquatints (one of which is the frontispiece), 3 black and white aquatints, 1 lithograph and 7 line engravings (including 1 folding panorama of the palace at Kandy), 1 engraved, folding map, numerous wood-engraved figures within the text; corrigenda slip present.
SIZE: 28.6 x 22.2 cm
MAP:
1. Map of the Island of Ceylon.
2. Plan of the Town and Lake of Kandy.
PLATES IN ORDER
1. A Kandyan Disave and Priest of Boodhoo. Pl. 6
2. (Reptiles.)
3. (Reptiles.)
4. (Two skulls.) pl.III
5. (Six line-engravings of Ceylonese, with captions.) From Drawings & Figures in Ivory by a Native Artist; I. Clark sculpt. Pl. 4
6. The late King ofKandy, from a drawing by a Native. I. Clark sculpt. PI. 5
7. Nata. Visnu.j Sarnen. Patine, From a Drawing by a Native Artist; I. Clark, sculpt. PI. 7. Four figures
8. Figures on the outer wall of the Maha Visnu Dewale. I. Clark sculpt
9. (Eight Idols.) I. Clark sculpt
10. Front of the Palace in Kandy. Drawn by Lieut Lyttleton H M 73 Rt: I. Clark sculpt. Folding. Pl. II
11. View of part of the Palace, including the Pateripooa, and of part of the Nata Dewale, from the great Square.
12. View from Himbliatanelle of Part of Upper Ouva & of the Plains of Bintenney &c. Drawn by Lieut. Auber; Engraved by Fieldingj imprint dated June 1st 1821. PI. 13.
13. View of the Valley of Badulla & of Namina-cooli- kandy. Signed and imprint as No. 12. Pl. 14.
John Davy was an army surgeon, anatomist and physiologist who arrived in Ceylon in 1816. anHe accompanied Sir Robert Brownrigg on his tour of the central highlands and Uva province. Davy penned this account following the tour with Brownrigg. Besides his travel experiences, Davy writes about geology, flora, fauna, climate, snakes and leeches. He provides a detailed description of the peoples of the Kandyan region, their government, laws, cosmology and the Buddhist religion. The author was the younger brother of Sir Humphry Davy, the noted chemist and inventor.
Reference: Abbey Travel 412
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