Grocraprny or Inp1a) 453 
and who visited that part of the coast by order of government.* In the 
language of that county Catd is a fort, and Byeitsd or Baid2é is the name 
of a tribe in that country.+ Thus Caéid-baiza is Fort baidzd, and Batdza- 
Cata is the Baiza-fort.. 
Tue island of Cheduba, opposite to this river, is called very properly 
Bazacata by Protemy, and Dr. Bucuanan informs us, thatthe letters 
TT, D, Th.andS, Z, are almost used indiscriminately in that country, where 
even indistinct pronunciation is fashionable. 
In the countries of Chatéala, and Barmdnaca, R&ma-cuanpra began his 
first bridge, in his intended expedition against Ravana. The abutment 
/took up the whole of these countries; and then Rama-cuanpra carried on 
his works, directly towards Subela or Sumatra, and had nearly reached 
that island, when by the advice of Visnisuan king of that country, he 
left off, and began another bridge at Rameswara in the south of India. Of 
the fornier bridge seven piers are still to be seen, which form the archipe- 
lagos of the Andaman and Nicobar islands, exhibiting vast ruins consist- 
ing of all the rocks, which surrounded them. “fhe Hindis fancy that all 
ledges of rocks, and all islands placed in a line are the remains of bridges 
made either by the gods, or by the devils, for some particular purposes, 
generally unknown to us at present. 
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* . Asiatick Researches, Vol. 4. p. 326. 
+ Asiatich Researches, Vol. 5. 224. 
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