ABSTRACT

B r i e f r e l a t i o n of the Trade of the Coromandel Coast, especially at the Factory at Masulipatnam, where I resided in the service of the Hon’ble Com-

The Coromandel Coast extends from Manàr to beyond Narasapur Peta, where the Orissa Coast begins.2 The Hon’ble Company has four factories on the Coast, as follows. Starting from Ceylon, the first is named Tegenampatnam or Tierepopelier ;3 it is under the government of the great Aya,4 and is

1 This phrase is discussed in the Introduction, § 5. * The extent of the Coromandel Coast varies somewhat in different writers,

as explained in Hobson-Jobson, s.v. Manâr is the island lying off the northwest coast of Ceylon, which marked the limits of ordinary coastal navigation. It will be seen that Schorer here applies the name * Orissa Coast ’ to the coast north of the Godavari river, which other writers (e.g., Bozvrey, 99, 130) call the Gingelly Coast ; a little further on he uses the two names as synonymous.