c o n d i t io n , w a s a g a in d e f e a t e d , a n d f o r c e d a g a in to p u r c h a f e
p e a c e o n t h e m o i l r ig o r o u s a r t i c l e s ; a n d Alla r e t i r e d w i t h t r e a -
fu r e s in e f t im a b l c : W h e t h e r i t c o n t in u e d it s in d e p e n d e n c y d o e s
n o t a p p e a r .
Beita OF the F r o m t h e c o n f lu x o f t h e BainGonga to t h e h e a d o f th e Delta
Godavery. o f t h e Q0j avery is a b o v e f i f t y m ile s ; i t is t h i r t y - f i v e m i le s f r o m
t h e h e a d t o t h e f e a , is c a lle d t h e I f le o f Nagur, c om p r e h e n d s
o n ly f iv e h u n d r e d fq u a r e m i le s , y e t is o f g r e a t e r v a lu e , in p r o p
o r t io n to it s e x t e n t , th a n a n y o th e r fp o t in t h e e a f t , w i t h o u t
e x c e p t in g t h e fam o u s Delta o f Egypt. T h i s , a n d t h e Delta o f t h e
Xiftnab, a r e , l i k e th o f e o f t h e Nile, o f v a i l f e r t i l i t y , e n r ic h e d b y
t h e fo i l b r o u g h t d o w n b y t h e a n n u a l in u n d a t io n s . T h e b a n k s
o f t h e f i r i t (w i t h in t h e m o u n t a in s ) a r e c o v e r e d w i t h im m e n f e
T e e k Trees. f o r e i t s o f Deek trees; w h e n t h e w o o d is f lo a t e d d o w n , t h e ih ip s
b u i l t w i t h i t a r e la u n c h e d in t h e f o l lo w in g f in g u l a r m a n n e r :
« T he ill ip or veffel is built with her keel parallel to the
<l ihore, and as it may happen from 200 to 300 feet from low
water mark: when completed, ihe is placed on two ilrong
pieces of timber called dogs (in the nature of a iledge of enor-
mous dimenfions) and on thefe a ibrt o f moveable cradle is
w conilrudled, to keep the vefiel upright: two long JAimyra
•f trees, as levers of the fecond kind, are then applied to the ends
a of the dogs, and by means of thefe powers they, together
« with the veffel that refts on them, are gradually pufhed for-
wards over a platform of logs, until they arrive at the loweft
pitch o f low water, or as far beyond it as the levers can be
M ufed. Tackles are applied to the ends of the levers to increafe
the power; the fulcrums are wreaths of ropes fattened to
“ the
“ the logs on which the vefiel Hides, and are removed forwards
“ as Ihe advances :■ two cables, from the land fide, are fattened
“ to the veffel to prevent her from Hiding too rapidly, and
“ thefe are gradually let out as ihe advances.
“ It is commonly the work o f two days to tranfport the
veffel to the margin of low. water. I f the tide does not rife
“ high enough to float her from thence (which it feldom does
“ i f the veffel be of any conliderable burden) part o f the cradle
“ is taken away, and the lhip left chiefly to the fupport of the
“ cables till high water, when they are fuddenly let go, and the
“ veffel falls on her fide, and with the fall difengages herfelf
“ from the remains o f the cradle, and at the fame time plunges
41 into deep water. A ihip of 500 tons has been launched in this
<e manner
The Circar of Rajahmundry, the fourth from the fouth, is Circar of
• j 1 • ■ , . Rajahmunbry.
divided into three parts by the great forks or branches which
form the famous ifle o f Nagur. Then commences the long
Circar Cbicacole: Its length from the borders o f Rajahmundry Chicacoie.
to Cbilka lake is two hundred and feventy miles, bordering
on the coaft from end to end, by fandy wattes, three miles in
breadth ; beyond that is a plain, according to Mr. Greville, .
riling nowhere above twenty-five feet from the fea, and extending
thirty-five miles inland, in many parts indented by
the range o f wooded mountains which bound the whole of
the weftern border. A fmall part is in cultivation, the reft con-
fifts o f woods, waters, towns, and barren wattes. Numbers of
rivers run direil from the hills to the fea, and ieveral as natural
* Mr. Rennel, p. 167.
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