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" proved how much the filence of difcipline excels barbarian 

 ^ noife; and uniformity of defign and adion, the defultory 

 " efforts of brutal force, acting by ftarts, and liable to the con- 

 " tagion of accidental impreflion." 



The land, from the mouth of the river of Surat, makes a Cape St. John. 

 flight curvature as far as Cape St. John, or the Baryagazenum 

 Promontorium. From this Cape, as far as Bo7itbay (according to 

 Qur Eajl India pilot) the coaft is fkirted with illand«, divided from 

 the continent, and from each other, by very narrow channels. 

 To the north of it is Da7noo?i, a ftrong place, poffcfled, in the lail Damcon, 

 century, by the Portuguefe, but now in a moll: ruinous ftate. It 

 was once befieged by Aurengzebe^ who had determined to take 

 it by ttorra, and fixed on a Sunday for the attack, thinking that 

 the Chrijllans^ like the Jezvs, Mould on that day make no re- 

 finance. The Governor, an old foldier, caiifed mafs to be faid 

 at midnight ; then made a fally with all his cavalry, and a ftrong 

 body of infantry, into a quarter guarded by two hundred ele- 

 phants ; he knew the dread thofe animals had of fire: he 

 alTailed them with fire-works. The dittracied beafts, in the 

 darknefs of the night, and without their governors, rufiied on 

 their own forces, which put the army into fuch diforder, that 

 before morning, half was cut to pieces by the Fortiigueje^ and, 

 in confeqnence, the fiege raifed. 



The trail that borders on the fea, from Bombay even as far Concan. 

 as Sooiida, in Lat. 15°, is called Cohcaji. This was the Lyniirica 

 of Arrian, ii. 171, a coaft full ot ports, of which he enumerates- 

 feveral; it once formed part of the kingdom of Vlfiapour. Kt 

 ihe partition teaty it was confirmed to the Mcrbratias, who now- 



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