'A voyage from England to India, in the year 1754, and an historical narrative of the operations of the squadron and army in India, under the command of Vice-Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive, in the years 1755, 1756, 1757 ... Also a journey from Persia to England by an unusual route. With an appendix, containing an account of the diseases prevalent in Admiral Watson's squadron, etc.' [‎63] (92/562)

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between us and them! fince thofe fpecftacles which to us would appear
frightful and melancholy, are to them familiar and delightful.
The boats ufed by the natives of Ceylon are trees hollowed ; but when- the
boat on account of the fize of the tree is too fmall, they build on top of
it a trough, fquare at both ends; they are about 12 or 14 inches wide,
and as many feet long ; the tree part at the bottom is much wider; they
have outriggers and fails, much the fame as at Madagafcar. There are
fome boats of this fort much larger, built between two trees, with which
they go along fhore the others are for the fifhermen, in which they will
go many leagues from the land.
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The Dutch {hew you in Ceylon^ Adam's apple (as they call it) ; it is in
ihape like the quarter of an apple cut out, with the two infides a little
convex, and a continued ridge round the two outer edges. It is of a
beautiful orange colour, but ofapoifonous quality. Some writers, induced
by the exceeding fruitfulnefs of the ifland, have fuppofed it to be
the feat of the i err eft rial paradife: but this opinion is not mine: that it
was the Taprohana of the ancients is not unlikely and indeed there are
ftrong reafons for believing that the ifland of Taprohana and Ceylon is
the fame. The ancients, particularly Ptolomy, obferve that * Taprohana
was famous for producing the largeft breed of elephants^ which is alfo true
of Ceylon. Taprohana likewife was greatly celebrated for its fpices, and in
this refped Ceylon may be faid to rival it, for it produces not only ginger*
STANZA XXV.
Pugnavlmus enfibus.
Hoc ridere me facit femper
Quod Balderi patris fcamna
Parata fcio in aula.
Bibimus cerevifiam
Ex concavis crateribus craniorum ;■
Non gemit vir fortis contra mortenx
Magnifici in Odini domibus,
Non venio defperabundus
Verbis ad Othini aulanu
STANZA XXIX.
Fert animus finire,
Invitant me Dyfa;
Quas ex Odini aula
Othinus mihi mifit
Lastus cerevifiam cum Afis
In fumma fede bibam,
Vitae elapfas funt hors,.
Ridens moriar.
* Eft in finu Gangetico, Narfingse regno adverfa, Ceylon, novem regnis diftincU, antiquis
Taprobana difta. Cluverii Geograp, lib, v.
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