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Chantapilly, or Chenlapilly, Mongelgary, Pullareddygur, Mafherlaw, and Syampilly, are all taken from the Malabar map; or that drawn by the native of the Carnatic.

Combam, or Comum, on the frontier of Cuddapah, is by the Malabar map 32 coffes weft from Ongole: and, in the route fent by Col. Harper to the Madras government*, 25 from Innaconda: both of which accounts are confiftent. This is the place called Kaman by Tavernier; and is faid by him to be the frontier of the Carnatic towards Golconda, in the year 1652.

From Combam to Adoni by the fame route of Col. Harper's, there are reckoned 67 coffes; and, by the Malabar map, 66: so that there can be little doubt of this being the distance by general eftimation. Montrefor places Adoni about 50 G. miles about E. b N. from Bifnagur: and reckoning the 67 coffes at 96 G. miles, the fum will be 146 between Bifnagar and Combam. This interval, on the map is, however, 159, or 13 more than the computed distance. These 13 miles, I have divided proportionally between the two intervals; and by this means Adoni will be on the map, 73 coffes, instead of 67, from Combam. And it being two days journey, or about 23 coffes to the northweft of Gutti, we cannot be wide of the mark refpecting its parallel. It must be obferved, that the. Malabar map reckons only 60 coffes between Arcot and Cuddapah; which, on my map is 68, of thofe that are reckoned 42 to the degree. It may be that the cofs of that country is longer than ordinary; and this may account for the difference between Adoni and Combam.

Condanore is 15 coffes to the eaft of Adoni, by the route tranfmitted by Col. Harper,

Canoul, in the Malabar map, is faid to be 52 coffes from Hydrabad; and only 57 from Cuddapah. This appears to be impoffible,

The route in question was not marched by Col. Harper, but collected from the informa don of his guides, whilft at Innaconda. It appears on the records of the Eaft India House.

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as the distance between Cuddapah and Hydrabad, cannot be lefs than 120 coffes; and these two fums make only 109. It may that the distance between Cirvalla and Nandy-Allem, is 15 coffes, instead of the 5 written in the map; as the other ftages are from The map alluded to, is not constructed by a scale, but rudely sketched out without much proportion being obferved either in the bearings, or diftances of places from each other: and the distances are written in figures between the ftages. I have before expressed my doubts concerning the truth of the local pofition of Canoul, in my map.

Rachore is four days journey from Adoni, and five from Calberga; according to the report of an European who travelled it. This perfon came from Seringapatam, by way of Gutti to Adoni; and communicated this, and several other particulars in his Itinerary, to Mr. W. Townsend; who obligingly gave them to me. A day's journey for a fingle perfon may be reckoned from 11 to 12 coffes (or about 22 British miles in road distance +) and this proportion agrees with the account of his journey from Seringapatam to Gutti; which, being about 105 coffes, took him up 9 days.

Rachore, according to Montrefor, is not far from the fouth bank of the Kiftna; and lies below the conflux of the Beemah river, and above that of the Tongebadra; and this pofition agrees with the account of its being four days journey from Adoni, and five from Calberga.

The pofitions of Combam and Mafherlaw obtained by means of the Malabar map; and that of Deopad ‡, or Doupar, from Col. Harper's march, help me to trace out Tavernier's route from Gandicotta to the Kiftna, and Hydrabad; as also the pofition of the Pagoda of Tripanty.

Sankalamary feems to be the Santafeela of Tavernier; and Combam is, no doubt, his Kaman. Deopad is what he calls Doupar;

• Called alfo Raw-chure, Rach-hore, and Adoni-Rachore.

+ Ufed in contradistinction to horizontal distance.

This place is 14 coffes from Innaconda to the W. S. W.

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fituated, according to his account, in a country intersected by many torrents from the neighbouring hills: Col. Harper makes the fame remark on Deopad. Tripanty * Pagoda was about 12 miles on the north of Doupar. Mafherlaw, near Timerycotta, is probably the Macheli of Tavernier, by its fituation in respect to the Kistna.

I have not been able to procure any map of the road from Nellore to Hydrabad, except the one in D'Anville's Coromandel, published in 1753: nor any Itinerary whatsoever. I have had fome opportunities of correcting it, in the part between Nellore and the Kistna: but the rest remains as I found it, except in the article of bearing; in which M. D'Anville and I differ very confiderably. Tavernier's route from Gandicotta, falls into it, near the fouth bank of the Kiftna.

• Some have confounded this with Tripetty, a more celebrated Pagoda in the vicinity of Chandeghere; and 160 miles farther to the fouthward.

SECT.

SECTION VI.

The Countries between HINDOOSTAN and CHINA.

T has been faid before (page 36) that the first ridge of moun

ITinst owen daid hitfore (dge 30), form the limits of the furvey

to the north to which I may now add, that the furveys extend no farther eastward, than to the frontiers of Affam and Meckley.

The Jesuits' map of China, as given in Du Halde, places the western boundary of Yunan (the weftmost of the provinces of China) between the 97th and 98th degrees of cast longitude, in the parallel of 24°: so that the eastern frontier of Bengal (Silhet) is within 350 British miles of the western part of China; or to speak comparatively, the fame diftance as Silhet is from Calcutta. Here one is apt to wonder, that confidering their vicinity to each other, there should be no communication between the two countries. The reafons probably are, that Yunan does not produce fuch manufactures as are in request amongst foreigners; and that the courses of the great navigable rivers in those parts, are unfavourable to a communication by water. The space between Bengal and China, is occupied by the province of Meckley, and other districts, subject to the King of Burmah, or Ava.

The great river Nou Kian, little, if at all, inferior to the Ganges, runs to the fouth, through that angle of Yunan which approaches nearest to Bengal; where the Jefuits, who formed the map of China, left it, in its courfe to the fouthweft. This river, M. D'Anville conceived to be the fame with that of Pegu, in like manner as he fuppofed the Sanpoo to be the Ava river: but fucceeding ac

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counts have left little doubt remaining, that the Sanpoo is the Burrumpooter; and the Nou Kian, the river of Ava.

In my account of the construction of the fea coafts (page 30) my authorities for defcribing the delta of the Ava river from the fea to the parallel of 18°, are given. The Dutch MS. map there quoted, defcribes the whole course of the river, as high up as the city of Ava itself, which it places in latitude 21° 48′; and also fays in a note " by obfervation:" and indeed, the whole fcale of the map feems to be formed from the difference of latitude.

The difference of longitude, as inferred from this Dutch map, places Ava in 97°. But Capt George Baker, of whofe accuracy I entertain a high opinion, took the bearings, and eftimated the diftances, the whole way from Negrais to Ava: and the refult corrected by the observation at Ava (21° 48′) gives the longitude 97° 42 and this longitude I have adopted. The particulars of the course of the river, I have taken from the Dutch map; as Captain Baker defcribes only the general direction of it.

Monchabco, a city, and the refidence of the King of Burmah,. or Ava, in 1755, is by Capt. Baker's account, 38 G. miles north from Ava: and this was the extreme point of his travels that

way.

The Nou Kian is named Irabattey by the people of Ava; and is faid by them to be navigable from the city of Ava into Yunan. Monchaboo being within 130 B. miles of the Chinese frontier, we want only so much, to compleat the course of the river in the map. This break is there defcribed by dotted lines.

Mr. Verelft, who meditated an expedition into Meckley from Bengal, and actually advanced as far as Cofpour on his way to it, in 1763; was informed by his Meckley guides, that after he should pafs the first ridge of mountains beyond Cachar, he would find a fertile and well inhabited country all the way to Ava. He, however, went no farther than Cofpour; but the particulars of the road between that place and Ava, are described from the intelligence furnished by the guides who attended him.

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