EASTERN HINDOOSTAN". 



Triichinopoly on November 28th ; his view being to draw our 

 grand army out of his country, in order to defend our own. 

 His plan fucceeded. Meadozvs followed, baud pajp.bus cequis. 

 The able Myforean got feveral marches in advance, ravaged the 

 country, led his army towards Pondicherri and JFandezva/Jj ; 

 after which he turned again weftward, to make head againftthe 

 threatened invafion of his country by the Britijij^ and their na- 

 tive allies, and Meadows retired to within a fmall diftance of 

 Madras. 



Lieutenant Chalmers was- left at Coimbetore^ and Vv'as in 

 1791 attacked by a party fent by the Sultan : they were repulfed 

 with the lofs of three hundred m.en. Towards the latter qwA 

 of the fame year, 'Tippoo, enraged at the repulfe, fent one of 

 his beft generals, Cummer ud Been Cazvn, with a flrong force 

 againft Chahners. That gallant officer underwent another 

 liege ; at length, overpowered with numbers, he was compelled 

 to yield on the moft honorable terms, but was on frivolous 

 pretences detained by the faithlefs enemy *. 



In tracing the courfe of the channel of the Cai'ery tov/ards 

 its origin from Lat. 11% where it begins to bound the eaft lide 

 of Coimbetore, it forms a lliort curvature towards the north, 

 as far as the mouth of the river Noycl, which rifes at the foot 

 of the Ghauts near the town of Coimbetore. From the mouth 

 of that river to Allembady, it defcends through a gap in 

 the eaftern Ghauts into the My/ore country, in Lat. 12° 10'.. 

 Long. 77° 52', E. and from thence has a north- weftern direction. 



* Dirom's Campaign, p. 51. 63, 64. 



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