EASTERN H I N D O O S T A N. I2I 



<' the logs on which the veffel Aides, and are removed forwards 



«* as fhe advances : two cables, from the land lide, are fattened 



<' to the veffel to prevent her from Aiding too rapidly, and 



** thefe are gradually let out as flie advances. 



" It is commonly the work of two days to tranfport the 



*' veffel to the margin of low water. If the tide does not rife 



*' high enough to float her from thence (which it feldom does 



*' if the veffel be of any confiderable burden) part of the cradle 



" is taken away, and the fliip left chiefly to the fupport of the 



" cables till high water, when they are fuddenly let go, and the 



** veffel falls on her fide, and with the fall difengages herfelf 



" from the remains of the cradle, and at the fame time plunges 



" into deep water. A fliip of 500 tons has been launched in this 



*' manner •'••." 



The Circar of Rajahmiindj-y^ the fourth from the fouth, is Circar of 



Rajahmundry. 

 divided into three parts by the great forks or branches which 



form the fanious ifle of Nagur. Then commences the long 

 Circar Cbicacole: Its length from the borders of Rajahmitndry Chicacole, 

 to Chilka lake is two hundred and feventy iniles, bordering 

 on the coaft from end to end, by fandy waftes, three miles in 

 breadth ; beyond that is a plain, according to Mr. Grevilie, 

 rifing nowhere above twenty-five feet from the fea, and ex- 

 tending thirty-five miles inland, in many parts indented by 

 the range of wooded mountains which bound the whole of 

 the weiiern border. A fmall part is in cultivation, the reft con^ 

 fifts of woods, waters, towns, and barren waftes. Numbers of 

 rivers run dired from the hills to the fea, and feveral as natural 



» Mr. Rennfl, p. 167. 



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