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ORIENTAL COMMERCE. 



[Madras to Bengal. 



W. | S. In this track there are at least 5{ fathoms, till you get within 

 two miles of the flagstaff in the above direction, when you have seven or 

 eight fathoms ooze. 



Teade. — The trade here in arrack, sugar, Japan copper, spices, and 

 other articles from Batavia, used to be very brisk ; the returns were made 

 in piece-goods of various sorts, manufactured here and in the adjacent 

 places. 



ARM AGON, ort DURASPATAM, is in latitude about 13° 58 N., 

 and about J 2 leagues N. N. W. from Pulicat, The Shoal of Armagon is 

 about 2^ leagues N. N. E. of Point Pondy, which is about half way between 

 Armagon and Pulicat 



GONDEGAM, on GREAT G AN JAM, is in latitude 15° 20 N. 

 The river is considered to bound the Coast of Coromandel to the N., beyond 

 which the Coast of Golcondu begins; but the appellation of Coromandel is 

 often applied to the whole extent of coast from Cape Comorin to Balasore, 

 as that of Malabar is to the whole extent of coast on the YV. side of the 

 Peninsula. 



MOOTAPILLY Is about eight leagues N. N. E. of Gondegam. The 

 town is about half a mile inland, not discernible from the offing; but with 

 the assistance of a glass, a pagodu is perceptible. There are some detached 

 palmyra trees to the N. of the landing-place, and about a mile to the S., a 

 thick grove of trees, with a clump on its S. part, higher than the rest. 

 With the N. extremity of a piece of high land in one with a thick grove of 

 trees, you are abreast the proper anchorage in latitude 15 g 4-2' N. Large 

 ships lie about a mile from the shore, with Mootapilly pagoda bearing 

 N. W. by N. 



From Mootapilly to Point Divy is about 14 leagues; in this space the 

 coast is low and woody, having several towns on it, the principal of which 

 are Nizampatam and Pettapollee : the latter may be known by a grove of 

 palmyra trees near it, and is in latitude about 15 a 50 N. 



NORTHERN CIRCARS. — That portion of the British dominions 

 on the Coromandel Coast, commonly called the Northern Circars, from its 

 relative situation to Fort St. George, is a narrow slip of maritime country, 

 extending from 15° 30 to 20° N. latitude, and from 79° to 85° K. longitude. 

 The sea bounds it to the E. in a direct N. E. course along a coast 470 miles 

 in length, from Mootapilly, near its S. extremity, to the town of Maloud 

 in Orixa, on the borders of the Chilka Lake, its N. extremity. 



The grand divisions of the whole territory are naturally and properly 

 five^being so many portions of its length, principally marked by rivers 

 running across from the hills on the Wi to the sea; but besides these, a 



