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The antlent name of the place now called Sadras, fee p. 50 of 

 this volume. It probably was the capital of an extenfive country. 

 In the Tamtuic language, improperly (fays Mr. Chambers *, termed 

 Malabar J and the inhabitants, Tamulians or Malabars. In the 

 Banjkrit, and the languages of the northern Hindoos, the city is 

 called Mahabalipur, or the city of the great Bali, a hero of Hindoo 

 romance, who likewife gives the addition of Mavali to the Ceylo- 

 ncfc Ganges y as the river of Bali. The Tamulians, or Malabars of 

 this race feem to have migrated into Ceylon. They are barely 

 mentioned by Knox, and mere fully by Wolf, in his account of 

 Ceylon, p. 241. They differ, he fays, in numbers of particulars 

 from the Cingaleys, or natives of Ceylon, and from the whole Bra- 

 minical fyftem. Mr. Chambers points out feveral particulars. The 

 eflay on the ruins of Mavilipuram evince that gentleman's deep 

 erudition in the antiquities of the Hindoo antiquities, who has fre- 

 quently traced them from hence to the great ifland jufl men.- 

 tioned* 



V. Mooto Tahlow, fixteen miles from Seringapatam. This gives a good 

 idea of the Myfore country, as defcribed at p. 73, engraven by Mr. 

 Chejham. For the drawing of this, and feveral others -f-, I am 

 indebted to Hoare, Efquire, of Tiviford, Hants - P* 73 



VI. A i?c?MAz foldier - - - - p. 169. 



* Author of the Eflay on the Ruins di MavilipuranU'-'AJtatic Refsarches, vol. i. p. 145. 



f The view of Palacaudcherry^ in vol. i. plate viii. of Dindigul above-mentiened, and of 

 yeffels on the Ganges., plate vii, of this volume, were taken from the lame colleftion. 



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