EASTERN HINDOO STAN. I5 



the Cavery, which is divided by multitudes of ftream^. It 

 is taken notice of by Ptole7ny^ under the title of Chaberis Flu. 

 OJlia. Excepting the Coleroon, the moft northern, I doubt whe- 

 ther any were navigable. The moft fouthern is anonymous, 

 but may be known by a place named in the map, Cottamoody. 

 This Delta is an irregular rhomb. The diftance to Calymere 

 point is about forty miles, and from that point, where the land 

 trends due north, to Forto-novo is eighty. 



Calymere point, the CalUgicum promontorium oi Ptolemy, juts 

 into the fea in Lat. 10° 20', and with Cape Koyel, forms a bay in 

 the concave fliores of the Marawars, and part of Tanjore. All 

 the coafl from Cape Comorin to Calymere point, and from thence Nature of the 



Coast 



to the mouth of the Godavery, is flat and fandy : this fort of 

 appearance, in places, runs far inland, and often infulates naked 

 rocks, and fugar-loaf peaks. From Calymere point, the coaft 

 runs almoft due north, fwelling out a little about midwav, as 

 far as the mouth of Kijinah river, in nearly Lat. 16° north. 



The northern part of the ftreight between the continent and 

 Ceylon, which lies from Cape Calymere to the clufter of ifles off 

 the northern end of Ceylon, is called PalJi's PaJJage. They pro- Paik'sPassage, 

 bably are the fhattered remains of land which once made con- 

 tinent of the prefent ifle of Ceylon, of which Adam's Bridge 

 is the other part. 



Within the Delta, at a few leagues beyond the Cape of Ca- Negapatam. 

 lymere, ftands Negapatam, the Negama of Ptolemy, a neat city, 

 and place of confiderable trade : it is wafhed by a river, capable 

 of receiving veiTels of two or three hundred tons. It was 

 firft fortified in 1690, and furroimded with walls in 1742: it 



did 



