254 A. D. 1746. 



Dutch companies refort for its coffee, hitherto the beft m the world ; 

 but they have no fettled fadories there. 



1747. — Tn Cambaya (a province of India) the Englifli company have a 

 prefident and council at Surat, who hare, or lately had, the fupreme direc- 

 tion of the commerce on all the weft: coaft; of Malabar. Its fubordinate 

 fadories are at Agra, Amadabat, Labor, &c. but not always confined to 

 fuch places. At Anjengo the company built a fort in the year 1695'. 



The ifland, town, aiid port, of Bombay on the Malabar coaft is a 

 fovereignty of our company's ; of which enough has been faid elfe- 

 where. And on the fame coaft there are factories at Calicut, Telichery, 

 Dabul, and Carwar, which laft is famous for the beft pepper in India ; 

 for which reafon our company has a fort there, as well as a fadory ; 

 but pepper grows in general all over India, and therefor cannot be 

 monopolized. 



On the Coromandel coaft, Britain has Fort St. George, having only 

 an open road, and the adjoining black town of Madras. It is but a 

 week's journey from the diamond mines of Golconda, held of the mo- 

 gul. To the governor and council of this place all the fadories eaft- 

 ward, or beyond the Malabar coaft, are fubordinate ; as. 



Fort St. David, and the lefler ones of Vizagapatan, Ganjam, &c. on 

 that coaft. 



In the kingdom and bay of Bengal, the Englifti company have Fort 

 William at Calcutta, Ballalore, Cofimbazar, Dacca, Patana, and fome 

 other fubordinate fadories ; though their later fuccefsful conflids with 

 the French, in thofe parts, have fince made confiderable alterations in 

 this part of India. 



In the great ifland of Sumatra, our company have a fort and fadory 

 at Bencoolen ; alio Fort-Marlborough, near it, and fome other fubor- 

 dinate fadories. 



In the ifland of Borneo the Englifli have a fadory at Benjar. 

 By the Dutch Eaft-India company are held the following, viz. 

 The extenfive and conftantly-improving colony of the moft famous 

 fouthern point of Africa, called the Cape of Good Hope, in full fove- 

 reignty, with all its forts ; where the fliips of all nations in amity with 

 the ftates-general of the united Netherlands have liberty to ftop and 

 refrefli : under it is the ifland of Mauritius, eaftward ot Madagafcar. 

 A fadory at BaflTora, before mentioned. 

 A fadory at Surat, under which are many fubordinate ones. 

 On the weft coaft of Malabar, the Dutch company have Rajapore, 

 Barcelor, Cananor, Panane, Cranganor, Cochin (taken from the Por- 

 tugucfe in the year 1662, after being poflefl^ed by them 150 years, and 

 fo fortified as to be deemed impregnable : it is their principal fettle- 

 ment on this coaft) Porcha, Carnapole, Coulan, Tegnapatan, Calecutt, 

 &c. all taken from Portugal. 



