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part of the Malabar coast; but as the western side of the Indian 
peninsula, almost from Surat to Cape Comorin, is generally in- 
cluded under that denomination, I will briefly describe the existing 
boundaries of the kingdoms and provinces in that part of the globe 
called by geographers the Hither-India. 
The most northern district was the Deccan; bounded on the 
north by Guzerat, east by Golconda and Berar, south by Visia- 
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poor, and west by the Indian ocean; Aurungabad, Satamah, and 
Poonah, were the principal inland cities; Poonah, from an obscure 
village, became after the brahmin usurpation, the capital of the 
Mahratta empire. The sea-ports were Tull, Dundee, Dabul, and 
Choule, once belonging to the Portuguese, but then to the Mah- 
rattas, who possessed the whole coast: Bombay, Salsette, and all 
the contiguous islands were included in this division. 
The next was the kingdom of Visiapoor, extending north and 
south, from Gheriah to the spot called the Malabar frontier, near 
Mangulore: this division was bounded on the east by the Gaut 
mountains, on the west by the Indian ocean; Visiapoor was the 
chief inland city; Ghereah, Goa, Carwar, Barcelore, and Onore, 
the principal sea-ports: the Mahrattas, and a few dependent Hin- 
doo princes, possessed the northern districts, except Goa; the 
conquests of Hyder Ally added the country of Visiapoor to his 
dominions. 
The third and last division was that of Malabar; which ex- 
tended from the Malabar frontier north, to Cape Comorin, south: 
the Gauls were its eastern boundary, the ocean its western. That 
part of the coast was divided among many independent sovereigns; 
the principal towns were Mangulore, Cananore, Tellicherry, 
