An Autobiography By The Late Major Thomas Skinner, Edited By His Daughter Annie Skinner With A Preface By Monnier Williams.

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Excerpt from Two Happy Years in Ceylon What can be the reason that writers on Ceylon seem impelled to describe their book as a term of years? - 'Fifty Years in Ceylon.' An Autobiography by Major Thomas Skinner. 'Eleven Years in Ceylon.' By Major Forbes, 78th Highlanders. 'Eight Years in Ceylon.' By Sir Samuel Baker. 'Seven Years in Ceylon.' By Mary and Margaret Leitch, - and finally, 'Two Happy Years in Ceylon,' by C. F. Gordon Cumming, who had so named her notes of pleasant days in the fair Isle, before realising that any of her predecessors had thus described their longer terms of residence therein? I can only ascribe it to the fact, so evident in each of these works, that the several writers have retained such sweet memories of 'Moonlit seas, Of dreamy sunsets, and of balmy air, Of glowing landscapes and of shadowy bowers Where stately palms low murmur in the breeze,' - that they have loved to enumerate the months and years that glided by amid such pleasant influences. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.