ii6 WESTERN HINDOOSTAN. 



Ihore a rtrong fort. It obfervable that he found in this ifland, 

 amidit the ruins of certain buildings, feveral red and black cru- 

 cifixes, the marks of antient chriftianity in India. 

 MiRjEE. About thirty miles to the fouth of Carwar Bay, is Merjee. 



This is fuppofed to have been the Mufirh of Arrian^ ii. p. 172, 

 and oi Pliny, lib. vi. c. 23, which the latter advifes his country- 

 men to fhun, as its neighborhood was infamous for its piracies. 

 It was an emporium^ but not abounding in articles of commerce. 

 In our days it has been made remarkable for having been the 

 place in which Brigadier General Matthews landed, in January 

 1783, with his forces from Bofnbay, on aii expedition which ter- 

 minated fo fatally to himfelf, and fo difgracefully to the Engli/Jy 

 nation. Tlppoo Sultan had, in the latter end of the year 1782, 

 made a mo0 deftrudlive inroad into the Carnatic. To divert 

 the ravages of the tyrant, was the objedl of the prefidency of 

 Sr. Ge-n. Mat- this coaft. When the General had arrived fo far, h-e landed his 

 TBtiiE. troo[TS, and fent orders to the fouthem army, under the colonels 



Macleod 2>.x\d>. HumberJiQn, to march and join him. Before their 

 arrival he, on January 5, attacked and took a few places of 

 fmali confequence. He then directed his views to the richeft 

 .j>arts oiAyder Alli^ dominions, to which he was encouraged by 

 the dii^ance they were at that time from relief. He carried the 

 Onore sacked, opulent town of Onore, which lay on the coaft, by ftorm. 

 " Every man," fays an adlor in the tragedy, " in Onore was put 

 *« to the fword ; the carnage was great ; we trampled thick on 

 " dead bodies that were ftrewed in the way. It M^as rather 

 ** fhocking to humanity; but fuch are but lecondary confidera- 

 ■** tions to a foldier whofe bofom glows with heroic glory, and 



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