tlfie £j^^//y55 there and that of the other Inhabitants ; and 
by the way gives an Account of the Chinam or Betele; 
then the City of St. Thomas (and a fort ot Chhftians there) 
then Trehletore (and htre takes occafion to relate fome 
Contefts of our Engltjh with the Dutch ^ then at Wars 
with us) and then proceeds to a Deicription of the Air 
and Seafons, theMonfoons, and Rains, and Storms ufu- 
al in thoft Parts; taking notice of ftrange coloured 
Fiflies in the Sea, and Tuttecory on the Land, and alfo 
of the prodigious Ridge of the Mountain Gates t extend- 
ing North and South Nine Hundred Miles, and fevering 
theCoaft of Coromandel from that of Malalar, and ter- 
minated by the Promontory or Cape of Comorine\ af- 
ter the paffing of which he defcribes the Malabar and 
Canatkk Coaft as far as Eomlaim : Here he relates a 
ftrange Phenomenon of a Shole of Pilchards pafTing by, 
that gave a Light bright enough to read a fmall Pnnt by 
it. He takes notice of Carnapoly (whence we formerly 
had Pepper) ; then of Cochin^ then Tanore^ which he 
more particularly defcribes ; then Calicut ; then Phalo- 
patan, where he took Boat and rowed up the River to 
Cutty Cony ( then refigned to the Englijh where they 
have a Fort}. Being return'd they palled Northward, 
leaving the Malabar Coaft and entring the Canatick they 
Anchored and Landed at Onor^ from thence they went 
to Miria, wh^re they Jaded Pepper, Saltpeter and Betele- 
Nuts, Then pafled Carwar, 6oa^ Rajapore and laftly 
arrived at Bomhaim^ lying in 18^. 40'. whofe Bay he 
Defcribes and thence Dates this Firft Letter. 
In his Second Letter he gives a more particular Ac- 
count of the Ifland of Bombay^ one of the Iflands of Sal- 
Jet lying in the middle between 6oa and Surat. This 
Ifland and a great Quantity of the low Lands, he ob- 
ferves has been raised out of the Sea, for that the Rocks 
many Miles up the Country, are beftuck with Oyfter- 
Shells 
