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EASTERN H I N D O O S T A N, 



iliadowed with a gloom and obfcurity, refembling the darkeft 

 Becember day in England-, a curious circumftance to occur 

 tinder a vertical fun at mid-day, and within ten degrees of the 



line*. 

 River Penkar. ^ THE firft confiderable river to the north of Madras is the 

 P^nnar, which difcharges itfelf into the fea by two mouths, in 

 about Lat. 14° 30'. It rifes nearly in midway between the two 

 feas, near Chinna Balabaran, or about twenty-five miles north of 

 Bangalore. It has a northern courfe as high as Lat. 15°, from 

 whence it runs eafterly till it reaches the fea. It is a confider- 

 able river, being three hundred yards wide feventy miles from 

 the fea, confined by mountains on each fide. On the fouthern 

 Ga*'cicotta. part fliands the fl:rong fortrefs of Gandicotta, on the fummit of 

 a lofty mountain, with a great precipice on one fide, and accef- 

 ■ fible only by a road from twenty-five to feven or eight feet 

 broad. At the bottom is the vaft river. A fmall plain on the 

 top fown with rice and millet, and watered by many fprings, for 

 centuries puts all attempts to reduce it to defiance. But about 

 the year 1652, it was taken by the celebrated General Emir 

 Jumla-t then in the fcrvice of the king of Golconda : Tavernier 

 fays by force; Theve^iot informs us that it was effeifted by cor- 

 rupting the governor. 

 CuDAPAH. Cudapah fi:ands on a river which runs into the fouthern fide 



of the Penriar, a Pifan nabobfliip ; and not far from its dif- 

 charge is Nelore, a fort and capital of a fmall country mentioned 

 in the wars of 1753. — I mufl: return almofl: to the fource of this 

 river to mention Pcnuconda, a large city, with a caftle, eight 



Nelore. 



Penuconda. 



Communications, 5cc. 5cc. publiflied by Do6lor James AnJerfon, Madras, 1795, p. 14. 



days 



