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Four miles dillant from Fort St. David is the famous Ficus Ficus Indica. 

 Indica, or Banian tree, under the fliade of which Mr. Ives fays, 

 at p. 199, that a Mr. Doidge computed that ten thoufand men 

 might Hand without incommoding themfelves, allowing fix 

 men to a yard fquare ; and feveral people have built houfes 

 under the arches, which have been formed by the limbs 

 dropping down, which take root, and "become another tree 

 united to the firft. The arches which thefe different flocks 

 make are Gothic^ and fomewhat like the arches in WeJlminJIer- 

 ball. 



The town of Cuddalore flands on a branch of the fame river as Cuddalore. 

 St. David's does, not a mile to the fouth of the fort, and divided 

 by a very fmall beach from the fea. It is a moft populous place, 

 the emporium of the neighborhood, and contains the commercial 

 people. The Abbe Raynal makes the number of inhabitants 

 amount to lixty thoufand. A little above the town flands the Trivaei. 

 pzgodzTrivada, which forms a citadel to a large Pet fab, or town, 

 ■which are frequently built under the protedlion of places ufed 

 for fortrefTes, both in Europe and Hindoojlan. It had often been 

 the feene of adlion between us and the French, from 1750 to 1753. 

 This river is called the Pen-aur, it rifes very remote, near to Ouf- Ouscotta. 

 cotta, a hill fort in the My/ore, twenty miles to the north-eafl of 

 Bangalore. In defcending the river, QuJJoor, another fort, flands Ous^oor.. 

 a little to the wefl. We now arrive among the fcenes, immortal- 

 ized by the Britijh under the Marquis Cornwallis in the Myforean 

 war : the refult of prudence, fupported by refiftlefs valour. Ouf- 

 foor, on July 15, 1791, was the firfl fortrefs that fell. Here were 

 found the decapitated remains of three EngliJJj prifoners, whom, 



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