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WESTERN HINDOOSTAN.
)r the Tur-
key.
Cape Ramas.
KlNGDOiM OF
Canhaea.
life cut on the fides, which Mr. Franklin * fays is admirably-
executed. Legend fays that the body was found fifty years after
his death, uncorrupted^n the fpot he died, and by them con-
veyed to this city. To difbelieve the account would be highly
penal, and a crime worthy of the notice of the holy office.
I here mention a zoological anecdote, to difprove the opinion
that very refpeited friend, Mr. Barrington, had taken up, that
the turkey was a native of Hindoq/ian; (fee his Mifcellanies,
p. 133)- In the Memoirs of Jebangir t we are told, that they
were firft feen at Goa, introduced by the Portuguefe, and bought
by Mocurreb Khan, embaffador of jebangir, as a curiofity
neither he or his matter ever had feen before.
A few leagues fouth of Goa is Cape Ramas. Between Cape
Ramas and Carwar, in Lat. 150, begins the province of Canbara,
the cis-ghautian part of Bednore, which extends along the coaft
two hundred and thirty miles, and ends at movant Dilla. Before
Ayder Alii made himfelf mailer of this important trait, it was
little known; its numerous forefts, its precipitous chains of
mountains, and the inhabitants, a wild race, under Poly gars who
never before had fubmitted to any yoke. At the partition
treaty, at Seringapatam, this whole province was left to 1'ippoo.
This, fays Mr. Rennel, is to be, lamented, but unhappily we
could not retain it, as we had our full fhare without this af-
fumption J. In thefe parts that precipitous range comes within
* Travel1-, 20.
f P. 25; tranflated by Francis Gladwin, Efq.
% See Mr. Rennel's Memoir on the Map of the Peninfula of India, p. 31 j a moft
valuable explanation of the Partition Treaty.
fix
WESTERN HINDOOSTAN.
)r the Tur-
key.
Cape Ramas.
KlNGDOiM OF
Canhaea.
life cut on the fides, which Mr. Franklin * fays is admirably-
executed. Legend fays that the body was found fifty years after
his death, uncorrupted^n the fpot he died, and by them con-
veyed to this city. To difbelieve the account would be highly
penal, and a crime worthy of the notice of the holy office.
I here mention a zoological anecdote, to difprove the opinion
that very refpeited friend, Mr. Barrington, had taken up, that
the turkey was a native of Hindoq/ian; (fee his Mifcellanies,
p. 133)- In the Memoirs of Jebangir t we are told, that they
were firft feen at Goa, introduced by the Portuguefe, and bought
by Mocurreb Khan, embaffador of jebangir, as a curiofity
neither he or his matter ever had feen before.
A few leagues fouth of Goa is Cape Ramas. Between Cape
Ramas and Carwar, in Lat. 150, begins the province of Canbara,
the cis-ghautian part of Bednore, which extends along the coaft
two hundred and thirty miles, and ends at movant Dilla. Before
Ayder Alii made himfelf mailer of this important trait, it was
little known; its numerous forefts, its precipitous chains of
mountains, and the inhabitants, a wild race, under Poly gars who
never before had fubmitted to any yoke. At the partition
treaty, at Seringapatam, this whole province was left to 1'ippoo.
This, fays Mr. Rennel, is to be, lamented, but unhappily we
could not retain it, as we had our full fhare without this af-
fumption J. In thefe parts that precipitous range comes within
* Travel1-, 20.
f P. 25; tranflated by Francis Gladwin, Efq.
% See Mr. Rennel's Memoir on the Map of the Peninfula of India, p. 31 j a moft
valuable explanation of the Partition Treaty.
fix