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EASTERN HINDOOSTAN. 



Crocodile 

 Garrison. 



The Tunge- 

 eadra. 



City of Bis- 



XAIbUR. 



peared to be great, but is now filled with rubbifli : within the 

 fort is the citadel. 'Tavernier, p. 72, fliys, that the great ditch 

 was filled with crocodiles, by way of garrifon, to prevent all ac- 

 cefs by way of water. Lieutenant Moor, p. 334, has his doubts 

 about this, imagining that there never was any water in this fofs. 

 That fuch garrifons have exifted I doubt not. I have read in 

 PurcbaSy ii. p. 1737, that in Pegu, the fofies of fortified places 

 were flocked with thofe tremendous animals, not only to keep 

 out enemies but to prevent defertion. This pradtice has cer- 

 tainly been of great antiquity in fome parts of India : Pliny, 

 lib. vi. cap. xx. mentions it as ufed in a fair city of the Horatc?, 

 a people I cannot trace : " Horat:e," fays the naturalift, " urbe 

 *' pulchra foffis paluftribus munita, per quas Crocodili humani 

 ** corporis avidiffimi, aditum nifi ponte, non dant." 



The Krijhna, above and below its conflux with X}i\QBeema, is 

 fordable ; and a few miles below its channel is fix hundred 

 yards wide, made horrid with the number and rudenefs of the 

 various formed rocks, which are never covered but in the rainy 

 feafon. 



The Tungebadra is another vaft branch of the Kri^fhna. It 

 falls into it in Lat. 16° 25', and originates extremely fouth, from 

 a doubtfal fountain. Towards its lower part it divides into three 

 or four fmall branches, which rife remote from each other ; the 

 moft fouthern is the Coorga Nayrs country ; the moft northern 

 from the head of the Ghauts oppofite to Onore, and fcarcely 

 twenty miles from the fea. What mufl: give this river great 

 celebrity, is its having had on its banks, in Lat. 15° 22', the 

 fplendid city Beejanaggur or Bifnagur. Feripta fays, that it 

 9 was 



