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Asia Ceylon
A one shilling rate to or from Falmouth in 1840 and in 1843 from Southampton began, by 1 Januaty, 1857 a 9d rate
via Marseilles matched the India rate, which was lowered to 6d from British ports.
li- unpaid
Kandy, Ceylon, 13 September, 1850-44 days
1/- unpaid letter 13 September, 1850 Kandy to Edinburgh via Southampton. Kandy Steamer
date stamped for departure, 26 October London, 24 October Edinburgh.
Detailed persona! account of plantation life from a Scotsman living in central Ceylon.
9d paid
Haddington, 24 December, 1857- 29 days
9d paid to Kandy, Ceylon via Marseilles. 13 bar 171 numeral canceled, 26 December
London, 21 January Colombo receiver for Kandy arrivai next day.
Scots came to Ceylon first as coffee planters, a disease killed the coffee island wide, but the replacement crop of tea earned
fortunes. Scottish settlers came to Ceylan with the lure of inexpensive land to clear for growing and exporting plantation crops.
