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rocks, called the Oyster rocks, a little to the northward, also 

 offers a place of shelter. There is au anchorage under their 

 lee during the S.W. monsoon, where vessels might ride in 

 perfect safety, and, when a lighthouse is established on the 

 highest Oyster rock, vessels will be able to approach this 

 dangerous coast, and run into the anchorage, during the sum- 

 mer months. Sedashighur is nearer Dharwar than any other 

 port ; a river, the Kala-nuddee, navigable for boats for twenty 

 miles, falls into the sea close to the anchorage, and a good 

 road is all that is required to make this place an important 

 port for the shipment of cotton. Energetic measures have 

 already been adopted for this purpose, and it ^vill not be long 

 before Dharwar, the only cotton district in India where the 

 y^merican species has as yet been profitably cultivated, will 

 be supplied with a port where the cotton may be pressed and 

 shipjDed direct for England.*^ 



After passing Sedashighur we put into Goa harbom-, and 

 went thence to Vingorla, tlie port of the Belgaum district, 

 and a great place for the manufacture of earthenware chat- 

 ties, which are taken up the coast in pattamars. The follow- 

 ing day we were at Rutnagherry, and passing Sevendroog, 

 the famous stronghold of the pii'ate Angria, we concluded om' 

 coasting voyage by anchoring in Bombay harbour. 



^ The gross exports of cotton from the ports in the various districts of the 

 Maikas Presidency in 1859-60 were as follows : — 



Vizagapatam . . . . 40,758 lbs. Valued at £783 



Godavery 3,000 „ 36 



Krishna 198,670 „ 1,591 



Nellore 21,075 „ 230 



Fort St. George . . 7,960,368 „ 128,648 



Tinnevelly '. 18,562,546 „ 274,380 



Malabar 2,509,132 „ 49,900 



N. and S. Canara • • 33,264,498 „ 504,905 



Total .. 62,560,047 „ 960,473 



In 1860-61 the total export of cotton from Bomkiy amomited to 

 355,393,894 lbs. ; of which 278,868,126 lbs. went to Great Britain. 



In the same year the ports of Malabar and Canara sent 55,182,181 lbs. to 

 Bombay. 



