io8 EASTERN HINDOOSTAN. 



" called Allputna, The river at one place at the foot of thefe 

 « ruins is only fixteen yards wide, below which there has been 

 *' a ftone bridge." 



These anguft ruins are in the little Ch'car of Annago-ondy, 

 which does not extend above twenty miles around this vali city. 

 It is very lingular that that little Circar is now poffelTed by a 

 lineal defcendant o^ Ram-Raj ab^ the laft great monarch of Bee- 

 jamaggur-i and its attendant nations Canarme and Malabar, 

 united feven hundred years before under the rule of Kifnendeo, 

 'J'ippoo wifhed to referve this little tratft to himfelf, for the fatis- 

 failion of generoufly reftoring to the defcendant the fmall 

 relique of the great empire of his anceftors. He is denied the 

 title of Rajah, inftead of which he has the diminutive Rayed 

 bellowed on him ; this fuitable to his revenues, which do not 

 exceed two lacks of rupees, or twenty-five thoufand pounds 

 per annum, with the empty regality of a mint at Annagoondy. 

 Sera. About fifty miles to the fouth of Bifnagur is Sera or Scirra, 



capital of a confiderable SoubahJJjip, till it was reduced by Ayder 

 AH, in conjundlion with Bazaletzing king of Adoni. It was 

 articled that he fhould have all the moveable plunder, fuch as 

 cannon, ammunition, &c. &c. and Ayder remain poirefled of 

 the place. The city was taken, and the agreement fulfilled, fo 

 that Ayder remained mafier of an extenfive territory adjacent to 

 that of My/ore, of which he was proclamed Soiibab. Sera fi:ands 

 about fixty miles to the north-wefi oi Bangalore. The Marquis 

 made t\iefoubah/}jip of the former the quarters of the Mahrattas, 

 at the time their fervices were not wanted, in the interval be- 

 tween his two great campaigns. 



Bordering 



