Below Or South From Mount Delli To Cape Comorin
Is Malabar, Extending 93 Leagues, And Divided Into Three Kingdoms Which
Own No Superior.
The kingdom of Cananor has 20 leagues of coast, in
which are the towns of Cota, Coulam, Nilichilam, Marabia, Bolepatam,
Cananor the metropolis in lat.
12 deg. N. Tremapatam, Cheba, Maim, and
Purepatam. At this place the kingdom of Calicut begins and extends 27
leagues, of which Calicut the metropolis is in lat. 11 deg. 17' N. besides
the following towns Coulete, Chale, Parangale, Tanor, the last of which
is the capital of a small kingdom subject to the zamorin of Calicut, and
Chatua the last in this kingdom. Next to Calicut to the south is the
small kingdom of Cranganor, which borders on Cochin, after which is
Coulan, and last of all Travancore, which is subject to Narsinga. Near
Travancore is the famous Cape Comorin, the southernmost point of the
continent of Indostan or India on this side the Ganges, in lat. 7 deg. 30' N
[78]. at which place the coast of Malabar ends, being the fourth of
the nine districts into which I have divided the coast of Asia.
[Footnote 78: The latitude of Cape Comorin is 7 deg. 54' N, or nearly
so. - E.]
From Cape Comorin in the west to Cape Cincapura in the east, which is
the southernmost point of the Aurea Chersonesus or Malacca, the
distance is 400 leagues, within which line is contained the great bay of
Bengal, sometimes called the Sinus Gangeticus, because the river
Ganges falls into this bay in about the lat.
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