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where it unites with a channel that flows from the northern kalingula 

 of the Tripatii lake, continues its course to Murthen-puiiar-kovil, 

 through an entire wood, and traversing in an east-south-east direction 

 four miles, receives a channel from the west, termed the Tirumunimu- 

 tu-ar, about one mile south of Nedavakotta, whence it pursues an eas- 

 terly course through a thick grove of Palmyra trees, widens in its way, 

 and passes by Kullel Yalavenkotta, where it enters this province below 

 the termination of a disputed boundary, and is joined by a channel 

 called Koatha-ar, west of the village Othayauchi. It then takes a 

 north-easterly course towards Thavakotta, where it separates into two 

 branches, which, uniting about a mile to the east, run north of the fort 

 of Hanumantagudi, and south of the village : it again separates into 

 two branches. The northern one runs easterly three miles, and then 

 separates into two streams, taking an east by south course for ten miles, 

 and falls into the Pamban-ar, below the village Audavatur ; the lower 

 branch assumes the name Paushi-ar, from the village Paushipatnam, 

 which is situated on the coast near the junction of this channel with the 

 sea. The southern branch of the Virashelai-ar pursues a south-easter- 

 ly course about seventeen miles from Hanumantagudi ; passing by 

 Kumbukotta and Audavatur, it waters several tanks in its tract ; and, 

 crossing a high road that leads to Ramnad, along the sea-coast, dis- 

 charges itself into the sea. 



Munnlmutu-ar, a rivulet issuing from the southern kalingula of 

 Kotaivial lake, in the Siyaganga country, takes a south-easterly course, 

 and, passing; by Kaurai, Pauvanakotta, and Munni, enters this province 

 on the east by the latter village, and afterwards pursues a south-eas- 

 terly course eight miles ; waters the several lakes in its tract ; and 

 falls into the Teruvadanari lake, from whence the surplus water, flow- 

 ing over the southern kalingula of that lake, in like manner loses itself 

 in other lakes towards the east, the superfluous waters of which still 

 form a pretty wide stream near Thullamurrungur, and running in an 

 open plain, crossing the high road to Ramnad, forms a communication 

 with the sea to the south of Tonde. 



Kotaikarrai-ar, a wide and rapid stream formed at the junction of 

 two rivulets that enter this province on the west by the village Kokaar- 

 ne, waters the large Rasingamangalam lake, the superfluous waters of 

 which cire conveyed by a channel that issues from a large and well-built 

 kalingula constructed on the northern bank. This channel runs in an 

 east-south-easterly course five miles, crosses a high road by Armukam- 

 kotta, and glides south-east nearly two miles ; thence it pursues an east- 

 south-east course towards Kunnaryaindel, runs south-east from that 

 village about a mile, separates into two branches on the west of the 

 high road, and communicates with the sea by two mouths about a mile 

 distant from each other. 



