EASTERN HINDOOSTAN, 



C A R N A T I C, 



A tra6t of country, which within this century has been pe- TheCarnatic. 

 cuUarly interefting to the BritiJJo nation, by the bloody contelb 

 between us and the French^ for the fuperiority. This country 

 formed originally part of the gXQ2it foubab/jyip or vice-royalty 

 of the Decan. This was made independent of the Mogul by 

 the famous Nizam el Muluc : this vaft kingdom was, after his 

 death, greatly lelTened by the conquefts of the Mahratias, by 

 our feizing the northern CircarSf and by our beftowing on the 

 Nabob of Arcot the country in queftion. Its prefent bounda- 

 ries are the Coleroon to the fouth, and the Gendegama to the 

 north, an extent, wafhed by the fea, of three hundred miles. I 

 may here point out to the reader the vaftnefs of the antient ex- 

 tent of the Carnatic^ of which, and its appendages, our allv, 

 Mahomed Ally, is the nabob. It is now reduced, but once com- 

 prehended the whole country from the river Ki/ljua to Cape 

 Comorin*. At prefent it reaches as far as the extremity of Tl- 

 nevellvy an extent of five hundred and feventy miles, reckon- 

 ing from the fouth of the Gimtoor Circar. Its breadth is in-^ 

 confiderable, from feventy-five to a hundred and twenty miles. 

 The whole coall is deftitute of harbours ; the Hiipping are 

 obliged to lie at anchor in the open roads, uinally in eight fa- , 

 thoms water, and at about a mile and a half dillant from land, 

 and larger fliips at two miles diftance, in ten or twelve fathoms : at 



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