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Boundaries.
.H I N D O S f À N. 1
peded;‘:aftd ttfé' commer&'hàÿ decked, being ito^ cMsfiÿî transferrêd
=to 'the' Gaagé’s,' which préférits; fuch: Tupènor ndv'àritkgés as amplycôm-
pënfàte for the greater dift'ance of the voyage^ The Roman and Ai a-
biaii faine 01 tlië ‘ weftern Ihorcs' bas vaiïiflicd ; and Tiience prevails in
the ftrêets o f Barÿga’za orBaroach, the port of tiife/jgreari ‘inland city Tar
ifa , whence the prodndtkqf India, gems, tivqry, myrrh, ç'eppbi
and cotton cloths, plain or ornamented'with- flowers,'were in thé time
of Arrian exported Ipthe weftern world.
In later times the fouthcrn part of this: toad was $ remarkable ' upon
another account, being the chofen refidence of daring pirates. Yet
tbefê freéifôotefè'wère known cveti to Pliny and Ptolemy, being ftimü-
'làted in all ages by the richnefs o f the commerce. | They refembled, oh
a fmall fcale the piratical Hates of BarHàrÿ, and a fuedeffitfh: o t Afigriar
was continued till 1756, When wVfeized GfttetiaSj tfid^pfincipal fortrefs.
CHAPTER V.
The S o u t h e r n D i v i s i o n ' ó f ■ jH i i r b o ^ M s r »
Boundaries,—Britijh Pojfejfions.—Chief Cities apd. fawns.
r p tH I S part, which may allb1 be called the Deccan 8r South, in. the
A mod proper acceptation of the term,* 'is bounded; as already explained,
by the river Kiftna, and its moft .northern fubfidiary Jt reams
flowing into the Beema. " Hence it will extend from ‘ the latitude of
Bombay to the fouthern point of Cape Comorin, about 830 B. miles in
* It was alfo called in general Carnada, or the Carnatic, ( Rennell’s laft Memoir,' page 20 j)
and was motlly fubjeft to one king or raja, whole capital was Rijanagur, on the'{out;h bank of
the river Toombudra, faid to have been founded by Relaldea, A . D. 1344, being thus placed’ to
guard the northern frontier of his empire. | 'The ruins are extenfive, feveral rugged kills and rocks
being covered with temples ftill beautiful: the circumference appears to" be about eight miles. (Ib.
40.) -The empire of Bijanagur feems to have continued about eight hundred years. 'J
length,
‘ ’ CH A P . V. S O U TH E R N P RO V I N C E S .
length,, and .about |§|j| of medial breadth. It contains nearly the‘whole
of the' province of Vifxs[pour, and the moft important part of that of p o l-
conda, with the central kingdp^of Myfore, the long. eaftern province
of Carnada, or the.C^riatie,- '.p r in c ip a litie sT a ’njore, Travancore,
and tlie Samorins of, Calicut, t|ie. peppefyikjl of Canara,” and other di fitnes,
of which .Concam Hi fuppofed to be Kamkam, which the
Arabian authors m en tion ^ a l in in g to the .territory of, the Balhara.
In this idivifran of Hindoftan may alfo.be included the ifland of Ceylon,
the coafts of-which .are,now, pbffetfed by.the Englilh, who have Tup-
planed the Dutch ; while the nativeiprinces retain the extenfive inland
-parts.>’ h * *■ i " '. ’ • ■
In‘addition ‘tJCMthd diftria-.arounU;Madra^{the Britifh. power was,
4w% Q 2 arid fflftjffl extended’ # 0 wide provfUyépn-the fouth and weft
oTMffóre, and fiferingfcpatam the "is 'alfo iu:bürpoffeffibn, fritiiat
•qkr’ territories iétW ^o 'r tio ri'’ o f H ir fd o ftah a r ily '^ ll tin* ettenf and
c&nferfueffc'é tq thhfëori thé ©ahges,< .-SetiMpatam is not ofll^ de-
riaéhéd' but is ‘by its-inland fituafinmTerkr adapted for a commercial
ickpitaT ihmayf.tiLereforfc be, perhaps r ip p e d that qalicut, Britiancm,nt
and'eelabrated'emporium, or- fome .other place on that,c(jaft, will‘d
fetl^eds^^niet-wokt^ntoVpofAb^ö.eWf^u1^®^:^ u 1 m
'In recent times Seriogapatam may be regarded as the moft important
'c ity in this portion of Hindoftan. It is fituated in an ifle, fuirrounded
by the river Caveri, which ns even here sd>Qfct, five! feet deep, Ï and runs
over a-rocky‘ channel. The length of this | | m H railes’ and
the breadth t ó t a mile and a half pthe-.wfdiern fide.-being allotted .tp
the fortrefs, diftmguUhedbyfhegular.uutworks, magnificent palaces, .and
fofty moflts . for TipUS M d r h i s fitfip||bre M ah ome tanM ^v e rfe to
the (peffeeution of thé ‘•Hiridtoösi and ’Chriftidns.- The ,environs,-werie
'decorated With noble gardens Mand-among other means, of derence was
: what‘-is called the bound hedge, g'önfifting h f every tborny tree |
plant of the climate, ^antecfto .the breadth of from, thirty to.fifty feet.
When the ftreng^frihe.for ti;%ti:oris of all kindspand the number of
Tip^b'o’èiröops' knd krKUtryVSare’iorifiderêd, dhr ïepèktèdfftlcdêfleS'muft
| *: 'Itimant’s Vkvv tif HindolUa, yoL.iifp. f e f
M M | r I
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B ounda-
BritSh.PoffeffipbsV
Cli'îef Cities
pif-Tow^s.
^eringaps-»
tam.
-afford.