T h e Mabrattas were mailers of this city till July 1773, when
it was taken by our Bombay army, commanded by .that moil
able and popular officer Colonel IVedderburne, who fell before
the walls by a ffiot from a murdering fpecies of mufquet, called
a -guinal', it is heavier and longer than the common, and has a
larger bore, and placed on a reft for the fake of a furer aim »„•
The natives can hit an orange with it at a hundred and fifty
yards diftance. The place was immediately after taken by
ftorm, and the moft horrible exceffes committed by the troops
in revenge of the death of their commander. Barocbia was
added to the Briti/h empire by the treaty of Poonab, but in 1782
was ceded to Madajee Sindia, a Mabratta chieftain t, in reward
for his affifting us to make an advantageous peace, o f which
we were very undeferving.
The Nerbud- T h e Nerbudda flows in Lat. 23° 10', Long. 82° 10', out ,of the
DA- fame lake with the Saone, and after running full .feven hundred
miles with a courfe nearly jdue weft, falls into the fea near Barocbia.
The Saone flows out o f the eaftern end of the lake, and
taking an eaftern .cqurfe, falls into the Ganges, in Lat. 25° 40',
and fo .farms a complete ifland o f the fouthern part of Hin-
dopflan. It is alfo the fouthern boundary of the divifion called
Hindoojian Proper, as it is the northern o f the Deccan, That
word fignifies the fouth, and is corrupted from the antient
Hindoo word Dacbanos, which has the fame interpretation.
.Arrian, in his Mar. Erythg. ii. 171, mentions a great trait,
ftretching from Barygaza fouth ward, called Dachinabades.
* Wars in Afia, i. 504. f T o be farther mentioned.
F a r t h e r
F a r t h e r on is the port o f Swalley, where the European
ffiips, bound for Surat, frequently anchor, being the port of
that city, three leagues to the north of that river. There the
articles of commerce are landed, and the exports ihipped; but
the entrance, without a pilot, is very hazardous, by reafon o f
the fhoals. Mr. Herbert, afterwards Sir Phomas, the accom-
plifhed attendant on Charles I. the laft two years preceding his
murder, found here, in November 16]6, fix .Engli/h ffiips;
three o f a thoufand tons each, the other three of feven hundred
each ; a proof of the vaft extent o f our trade, fo early after
the commencement of our commerce.
I m u s t not quit this place without dropping a tear over the
grave o f poor Pom Coryate, the moft Angular traveller Britain,
or perhaps any other country, ever fent forth. He lies on the
banks o f the ihore, near Swalley, where he finiffied his long
peregrinations in December 1617, during the time that the
pious minifter, the reverend Edward Perrie, chaplain to Sir
Phomas Roe, was there. Pom was born in 1577, at Odcomb, in
Somerfetjhire. After publiffiing, in 1611, his moft laughable
travels, ftyled Coryate's Crudities, prefaced by above forty copies
of vexfes, by the waggifh wits o f the time {amongft which is
one in the antient Britijh language) he fet out on his greater
travels.
I n his European travels, he tells us that he walked nineteen
hundred and feventy-five miles in one pair o f ffioes, and had
occalion to mend thefti only once. On his return to Odcombe,
he hung them up in the church, as a donarium for their bringing
him fafely home to his natal foil.
V °L' L Encouraged
Port of Swai-
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