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was founded in 1344 by Belaldeo^ king of the Car na tic, which 

 in thofe days included the whole peninfula. It was vifited by 

 Co'far Frederick, a Venetian traveller, in 1565, and found de- 

 ferted and ruinous, having been facked by four confederated 

 Maho'inetan princes two years before, on which its monarch 

 had retired to Peniicojida, as before related. Frederick fays that 

 its circumference was twenty -four miles. Mr. Rennel has 

 given us a view of its prefent ftate from Lieutenant £?;z/?2//, who 

 vifited it in 1792. " On the north-weft fule oi Comlapoitr fort," 

 (fays Mr. Emmit) " diftant half a mile, there are a great num- 

 " her of rugged hills covered with pagodas, which have once 

 " been very beautiful. This place has been inclofed in ftrong 

 *' ftone-walls on the eaft fide, and bounded by the river on the 

 *' weft. The circumference of the whole appears to be about 

 *' eight miles, though I was told much more. Betwixt the im- 

 " menfe piles of rocks crowned with pagodas, I traced feveral 

 " ftreets from thirty to forty- five yards wide, feme of them now 

 " producing fine rice : there is one ftreet remains pretty per- 

 " fedl', it is near the S.W. angle of the bounds. It extends about 

 *' N. E. and S. W. half a mile, and is about thirty-five yards 

 *' broad, having colonnades of ftone on each fide, and a very 

 " large pagoda at the S. W. end in perfedt repair. On the weft 

 ** fide of this ftreet there is a large mango grove, which is 

 *' bounded by the Toombuddra. There are a niuiiber of Tcreams 

 " through thefe ruins, that have formerly been employed to fill 

 *' a great number of canals, the remains of which appear all 

 *' over this once delightful place. I enquired of a number of 

 " people the name of this place, all of whom told me it was 



Pa " called 



