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EASTERN HINDOOSTAN. T07
was founded in 1344 by Belaldeo, king of the Camatic, which
in thofe days included the whole peninfula. It was vifited by
Ccefar Frederick, a Fenetian traveller, in 1565, and found de-
fcrted and ruinous, having been facked by four confederated
Mahometan princes two years before, on which its monarch
had retired to Penuconda, as before related. Frederick fays that
its circumference was twenty - four miles. Mr. Renne! has
given us a viewof its prefent ftate from Lieutenant Emmit, who
vifited it in 1792. " On the north-wert fide of Comlapour fort,"
(fays Mr. Emmit) " diftant half a mile, there are a great num-
" ber of rugged hüls covered with pagodas, whiph have once
** been very beautiful. This place has been inclofcd in ftrong
" ftone-walls on tbe eaft fide, and boundcd by the river on the
" weit. The circumference of the whole appears to bc about
" eight miles, though I was told much more. Betwixt the im-
«' menfe piles of rocks crowned with pagodas, I traced feveral
il ftreets from thirty to forty-five yards wide, fome of them now
•* producing fine rice : there is one ftreet remains pretty pcr-
" fecl, it is near the S.W. angle of the bounds. It extends about
" N. E. and S. W. half a mile, and is about thirty-five yards
" broad, having colonnades of ftone on each fide, and a very
" large pagoda at the S. W. end in perfect repair. On the weft
" fide of this ftreet there is a large mango grove, which i«
" bounded by the Toombuddra. There are a number of ftreams
" through thefe ruins, that have formerly been employed to fill
" a great number of canals, the remains of which appear all
u over this once delightful place. I enquired of a number of
" people the narae of this place, all of whom told me it was
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was founded in 1344 by Belaldeo, king of the Camatic, which
in thofe days included the whole peninfula. It was vifited by
Ccefar Frederick, a Fenetian traveller, in 1565, and found de-
fcrted and ruinous, having been facked by four confederated
Mahometan princes two years before, on which its monarch
had retired to Penuconda, as before related. Frederick fays that
its circumference was twenty - four miles. Mr. Renne! has
given us a viewof its prefent ftate from Lieutenant Emmit, who
vifited it in 1792. " On the north-wert fide of Comlapour fort,"
(fays Mr. Emmit) " diftant half a mile, there are a great num-
" ber of rugged hüls covered with pagodas, whiph have once
** been very beautiful. This place has been inclofcd in ftrong
" ftone-walls on tbe eaft fide, and boundcd by the river on the
" weit. The circumference of the whole appears to bc about
" eight miles, though I was told much more. Betwixt the im-
«' menfe piles of rocks crowned with pagodas, I traced feveral
il ftreets from thirty to forty-five yards wide, fome of them now
•* producing fine rice : there is one ftreet remains pretty pcr-
" fecl, it is near the S.W. angle of the bounds. It extends about
" N. E. and S. W. half a mile, and is about thirty-five yards
" broad, having colonnades of ftone on each fide, and a very
" large pagoda at the S. W. end in perfect repair. On the weft
" fide of this ftreet there is a large mango grove, which i«
" bounded by the Toombuddra. There are a number of ftreams
" through thefe ruins, that have formerly been employed to fill
" a great number of canals, the remains of which appear all
u over this once delightful place. I enquired of a number of
" people the narae of this place, all of whom told me it was
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