140 EASTERN 11 I N D O O S T A N. 



The Pagoda of this deity is certainly of moft elTential ufe to 

 mariners on this very low coaft : it appears from the fea to con- 

 liil of three great towers, one of which is much higher than 

 the other two : on the top of each is a great ball, ftnck on a 

 fpike, the emblem of the deity. The fea off this land is deep, 

 but as it is not viiible till the fliip is almoft on (hore, the utility 

 as a land-mark is very great : the depth of water even near the 

 ihore, fays the Eajl India Pilot, is twelve fathoms. 



Among other Pagodas, a few leagues to the eaft is the Black 

 Pagoda, another land-mark ; it is feated on the weftern branch 

 of the great river Mabanaddy, or Cat tack, near the mouth. 

 About twenty-three miles diftant, v.tux Point falje, is the eail- 

 ern difcharge : thefe form a fmail Delta. This river rifes at the 

 foot of the hucknow hills, in Lat. 21° 14', Long. 81° 21' eaft, and 

 after a winding courfe pafles by Cattack, about fifty miles from 

 the fea. The mouths were called by Ptolemy, fluvii Adamantis 

 OJlia, the river itfelf the Adamas, from its being known in 

 that early time to be produ6live of diamonds, particularly in the 

 region called by that great geographer, Sahara. I am not 

 certain whether they were found in mines or by digging. In 

 TaverniefS) time they were met with in the bed of the river. 

 Sonmelpour, or Sumberpour, in Lat. 21° 28', is in the neighbor- 

 hood of the great fearch after thefe pretious ftones, of which he 

 gives, in p. 139, the following account : " In this river they 

 " find the diamonds ; for after the great rains are over, which 

 " is ufually in December, they ftay all January till the river is 

 " clear, by reafon that by that time in fome places it is not 

 *' above two foot deep, and in feveral places the fand lies above 



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