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WESTERN HINDOOS TAN. 



" travelling, within our own diftri6ls, about feventy miles in 

 " the twenty-four hours." 

 CapeComo- Cape Comorin, the moft fouthern part of Hindoojlany is in 



RiN- I, at. 8°. It is level low land at its extremity, and covered with 



trees, and not vifible from the deck more than four or five 

 leagues. Mr. Thomas Daniell^, to whom I am indebted for 

 numbers of informations, informs me, that the loftieft part is 

 the highland of Comorift, which is twelve hundred and ninety- 

 four yards high : and quite fmooth and verdant to the very 

 fummit. Near the bafe, burfts forth a moll magnificent cata- 

 ract : and near that is a Choultry for the accommodation of tra- 

 vellers. 



A LITTLE to the northward is the termination of the 

 Ghauts, which may be feen nine or ten leagues at fea. This 

 was the Comar of Arrian, ii. 175, where there was a caftle 

 and a port. The Tea adjacent v\^as fuppofed to have been en- 

 dued with peculiar virtues ; it was a great refo; t for the pur- 

 pofes of ablutions, and lurtrations, by all fuch perfons who 

 had determined to pafs a religious and folitary life. The female 

 fex performed the fame rites. Written hillory had, even in 

 Arrian'^ time, delivered a legend of a certain goddefs having 

 here performed the ablutions every month. The diliridt was 

 called Comari Regio ; but this holy water reached, fays Arrian, 

 as far as Colchos, the modern Mingrelia. Al. Edrz/l {peaks, p. 3r, 

 of a Comr. Injula, and gives it a vaft extent. There is a little 



• Words are wanting to exprefs the merit, beauty, and elegance of his prefcnt publication 

 of the views in Hlndoojian. 



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