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All this coaft, the Lyj7iirica Regio^ or modem Concan^ was 

 greatly frequented by the Roman merchants. " Originally 

 they performed only coafting voyages, from harbour to har- 

 bour, failing from Cana^ the modern Cava Canim, on the 

 coaft of Arabia Felix , till Hippalus^, an adventurous feaman, 

 having confidered the fituation of the harbours, and the form 

 of the fea, found out a navigation through the ocean, at 

 the feafon in which the winds blow with us, fays Arriatj^ 

 from the fea, and the weft fouth weft wind prevails in the 

 Indian ocean : which wind is called Hippahcs^ from the firft 

 difcoverer of that navigation. From that time till now, fome 

 fail in a direct courfe from Cana, others from the harbour of 

 the Aromatic, they who fail ior Lymirica make a longer ftay: 

 others who fteer for Barygaza or &cythia, ftay not above three 

 days; they fpend the reft of the time in completing their ufual 

 voyage." 



A FEW leagues to the fouth of Mount D/7/^, ftands Telli- Teilicherrt. 

 cherry^ in Lat. 11° 48', an EngliJJj fettlement, of late years de- 

 fended by lines, of a weakening extent, formed againft the 

 attacks of the late Ayder Alii. The place had been for years 

 befieged by his forces, under the command of his General, Sadik 

 Khan .- a vigorous fally, in January 1782, ended all his plans, 

 which was conduced by Major Abingdon^ a brave and able 



* Arrian, Peripl. Mar. Eryth. ii. p. 174. 



t A harbour and place of great commerce, the Aromata emporium, not far from 

 the Aiomota promontorium, or Cape Gardefui, the extreme eaftern promontory of 

 Africa, 



officer. 



