OUSCOTTA.
B angalore*
T he Pe t t a h .
high refpeil *. Ayder himfelf, on his death, was carried to this
place embalmed, and laid in Rate during four months; after
which he was carried and depoiited in the fplendid building of
the fame nature at Seringapatam.
A little beyond Color, the march inclines a little foutherly.
Oufcotta, a fort clofe to the road, is barely mentioned, pof-
libly not important enough to merit the attention o f our
army. At Ki/lnaporum, ten miles from Bangalore, firft appeared
the army of Tippoo, taking pofleflion of the heights, and
cannonading our rear, having previoufly burnt the country
eighteen miles round the city, to prevent the army benefiting
from its fertility. The Marquis fate down before it on March
the 5th; fecure of his principal objedt, but inconfcious o f the
prolongation o f its fate.
Bangalore is the capital o f a kingdom o f the lame name,
built by the Hindoos, afterwards improved and fortified by
Ayder and his fon. In 1655 it belonged to a Polygar Rajah, who
was difpofieffed of it by a general of the king of Bejapour t. It
went through a quick fucceflion of matters, till it fell into the
hands of the father o f Ayder, as a reward from the king of
Myfore for a vidlory he had obtained for him over the Mah-
rattabs J. It is feated in Lat. 12° 67' 30'> Long. E. from Greenwich
77° 22' 17".
T h e Pettah or town of Bangalore is of a confiderable extent,
and fortified with a rampart. The palace, built by Tippoo,
* Plate I. p. i , of the fine views in the Myfore Country, by Major Allan*
•}■ Views in the Myfore by Mr. Home, an elegant unpaged work, 1794.
% Hift. Ayder, i. p. 50.
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appears by the view o f it by Mr. Home, o f uncommon
elegance. The capitals and bafes o f the pillars are fculptured
with beautiful excentricity, and the arches undulated in the interior
fide, in a manner peculiar to the Oriental architedls.
T he natives of Bangalore are chiefly Hindoos. A great many
MuJJ'ulmen or Moormen refide there, and the troops that gar-
rifon the fort are compoied of the latter. In the neighborhood
are manufactures of filk and woollen-cloths. The wool is probably
that of the country. Doctor Anderfon « informs us, that the
country, a hundred miles weft of Madras, rifes fix hundred
yards above the level of the fea, and the flieep qn thofe elevated
fituations are woolly, and in no refpeft different from the fheep in
Europe, but the fleeces ftrong and harih, which are manufactured
into a fluff by the natives called Cambalee. Thè borders of the
Myfore is double that diftance, and the elevation above the fea
increafing, and confequently the purity and coolnefs o f the air,
Tippoo need not go out o f his dominions to fupply his looms.
T he Pettah was attacked and taken by ftorm on March 7th,
with the lofi of a hundred officersand men. The death o f the
gallant Colonel Moorboufe damped even the joy at the fuccefi.
A treafure was found in the town of every kind of neceffary.
Monuments to the feveral officers who fell that day, and in
the neighborhood, were ereited in the cemetery, with infcrip-
tions recording their fate.
Batteries were immediately ^ereaed againflrthe fort, and a
praaicable breach foon effeaed. The attack was led by Co-
W ool.
P e t t a h ta k en .
* In his Correfpondence, &c. printed at Madras, 1791.
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