r,S EASTERN HINDOOSTAN. 



tab. ccxcv. a native of India, was at firll miftaken for the true 

 plant, and much time, and many infects flung away : this is the 

 only indigenous CaBus. The Cacius opuntia is a native of South 

 America^ imported into this country, and ufed as fences for any 

 jDurpofes. 



The Mujcadel grape vine is planted at Bimlipatam, partly on 

 a rock, and has produced above ^qvqw hundred bunches of large 

 grapes of a raoft delicious flavor. Near Carroor, in Coimbettore, 

 are lemons which grow twice as large as thofe in Portugal, and 

 grafted peach-trees are to be procured from Hyderabad : Man- 

 gojlans from the Malaccas ; Cacao from Manilla ; and Camphor 

 from 'Japan. 



The fame patriotic gentlemen have extended their viev/s to 

 fupply the mofl; diftant of our colonifls : they have entered into 

 correfpondence with the intelligent and gallant Robert Brooky 

 governor of St. Helena, and engaged to fend to the inhabitants 

 of his fea-girt reign, every tree or plant of India, which may 

 contribute to their ufe, comfort, or luxury *. 

 Pullicate. At the extremity of the Jagbire of Madras ftands Pullicate., 



a fmall Dutch fettlement, feated on the fouthern end of the 

 narrow beach or land which feparates the lake of the fame 

 name from the fea, like that of the CbefJ bank near to Wey- 

 mouth, in our ifland ; it is thirty-three miles long and eleven 

 broad, and has on it feveral iflands. The difcharges to the fea 

 are very fmall, like the mouths of fo many rivers ; it is there- 

 fore probable that the lake was originally formed by the over- 



* The accounts of thcfe liberal traniiiclioas are taken from Doctor James Jtiditfin's publi- 

 cations at Madras. 



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