Note 1940 — I.—PHÆNOGAMOUS OR FLOWERING PLANTS. (continued 16)
Reading edition
Yet the cultivation was far more extensive in the earlier part of the century, as we may judge by the statement that the five principal cinnamon gardens around Negumbo, Colombo, Barberyn, Galle, and Matura, were each from 15 to 20 miles in circumference (Tennent’s Ceylon, ii. 163).