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EASTERN HINDOOSTAN.
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Four miles diftant from Fort St. David is the famous Ficus Fxcus Indica.
Indica, or Banian tree, under the fhade of which Mr. Ives fays,
at p. 199, that a Mr. Doidge computed that ten thoufand raen
might ftand without incommoding themfelves, allowing fix
men to a yard fquare; and feveral people have bnilt houfes
under the arches, which have been formed by the limbs
dropping down, which take root, and become another tree
united to the firft. The arches which thefe different ftocks
lake are Gothic, and fomewhat like the arches in Weßminßer-
ball.
The town of Cuddalore ftands on a branch of the fame river as Cuddalore».
St. David's does, not a mile to the fouth of the fort, and divided
by aevery fmall beach from the fea. It is a moft populous place,
the emporium of the neighborhood, and contains the commercial
people. The Abbe Raynal makes the nnmber of inhabitants
amount to fixty thoufand. A little above the town ftands the Trivadi.
pagoda Trivada, which forms a citadel to a large Pettab, or town,
which are frequently built under the protection of places ufed
for fortreffes, both in Europe and Hindooßan. It had offen been
the fcene of a£tion between us and the Frencb, from 1750 to 1753.
This river is called the Pen-aur, it rifes very remote, near to Ouf- Ouscotta.
cotta, a hill fort in the Myßore, twenty miles to the north-eaft of
Bangalore. In defcending the river, Oujbor, another fort, ftands Oussoor.
a little to the weft. We now arrive among the fcenes, immortal-
ized by the Britiß under the Marquis Cornwallis in the Myforean
war: the refult of prudence, fupported by refiftlefs valour. Ouf-
ßor, on July 15, 1791, was the firft fortrefs that feil. Here were
found the decapitated remains of three Ungliß prifoners, whom
l'ippoo.
3i
Four miles diftant from Fort St. David is the famous Ficus Fxcus Indica.
Indica, or Banian tree, under the fhade of which Mr. Ives fays,
at p. 199, that a Mr. Doidge computed that ten thoufand raen
might ftand without incommoding themfelves, allowing fix
men to a yard fquare; and feveral people have bnilt houfes
under the arches, which have been formed by the limbs
dropping down, which take root, and become another tree
united to the firft. The arches which thefe different ftocks
lake are Gothic, and fomewhat like the arches in Weßminßer-
ball.
The town of Cuddalore ftands on a branch of the fame river as Cuddalore».
St. David's does, not a mile to the fouth of the fort, and divided
by aevery fmall beach from the fea. It is a moft populous place,
the emporium of the neighborhood, and contains the commercial
people. The Abbe Raynal makes the nnmber of inhabitants
amount to fixty thoufand. A little above the town ftands the Trivadi.
pagoda Trivada, which forms a citadel to a large Pettab, or town,
which are frequently built under the protection of places ufed
for fortreffes, both in Europe and Hindooßan. It had offen been
the fcene of a£tion between us and the Frencb, from 1750 to 1753.
This river is called the Pen-aur, it rifes very remote, near to Ouf- Ouscotta.
cotta, a hill fort in the Myßore, twenty miles to the north-eaft of
Bangalore. In defcending the river, Oujbor, another fort, ftands Oussoor.
a little to the weft. We now arrive among the fcenes, immortal-
ized by the Britiß under the Marquis Cornwallis in the Myforean
war: the refult of prudence, fupported by refiftlefs valour. Ouf-
ßor, on July 15, 1791, was the firft fortrefs that feil. Here were
found the decapitated remains of three Ungliß prifoners, whom
l'ippoo.