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by the Admiralty and the Government of Ceylon. For the
repair and overhauling of small vessels a patent slip has
been constructed, which is adapted for theacecommodation of
craft up to 1,200 tons dead weight. A coaling depdt is also
being formed, having an area of 24 acres, which will afford
storage capacity for 250,000 tons of coal. Dredging with a
view to extend the area of deep water within the harbour
is likewise in actual progress.
The estimated cost of the breakwater, coaling ground.
patent slip, and other works in progress, excepting the
graving dock, is £842,130. For the graving dock and the
works in connection therewith the estimated cost is £346,700.
Sir John Coode designed the south-west breakwater, and
it was executed under his direction, Mr. John Kyle, senior,
being the Resident Engineer. The works now in progress,
and which are fast approaching completion, were designed
by Messrs. Coode, Son &amp; Matthews, Engineers, of Westminster,
 Mr. J. H. Bostock being the Resident ngineer.
Some idea of the magnitude of the works can be realized
from the fact that there are 2,600 free work-people and 700
convicts daily employed upon them, while the three principal
divisions stretch over a wile and a half,
At present there are thirty-one berths for ships available
during the south-west and thirty during the north-east
monsoon, but after the completion of the new breakwaters
there will be approximately thirteen more berths available
during each monsoon.
During the year 1902, 2,433 vessels with an aggregate
tonnace of 4.574.271 tons visited the vort of Colombo.

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Da Asia. J.de Barros and D. de Couto. Lisbon, 1678.
Wy Historical Relation of the Island of Cevlon, R.Knox. London,
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A Description of ye East India Coasts of Malabar and Coromandel
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Beschryving van Oud en Nienw OQost-Indien. Rev. F. Valentyn
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Embassy to Kandy. H. Boyd. London, 1800.
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A Description of Ceylon. Rev. J. Cordiner. London, 1807.
History of Ceylon from the Llarliest Period to 1815. Philalethes
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