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many qualities which entitle them to hold a higher
place in this agglomeration of nationalities than they
have ever yet taken. They are intelligent, industrious,
and frugal.
The trade statistics of 1898 show the total value of
exports from Ceylon at Rs. 95,000,000, and imports
Rs. 97,900,000 approximately, the value of the exports
to India being Rs. 7,300,000, and of the imports from
India Rs. 61,400,000.

The physical characteristics of Assam and Ceylon have been generally
described from personal observations in those regions, with such assistance
as may be derived from Survey Reports (Indian and Ceylon) and Census
Returns ; but for Burma I have been dependent on the writings of such
experts as Scott, Woodthorpe, Yate, and M‘Mahon, and on the recently
issued Indian Survey sheets of Burma, which illustrate a vast extent of
country about which very little has been written.