ii4 Mr. Topping's Account of the Measurement , &c. 
of trees before^ rfientioned, is the first cluster we meet with, 
by the sea side, southward of Cuddalore river. 
This measured base makes the exterior side of the thirty- 
third triangle of a concatenated series of oblique triangles, 
now carrying down the coast from the steeple of Fort Saint 
George. 
Porto Novo, 
10th June, 1788. 
