Volume 2

The East-India gazetteer; containing particular descriptions of the empires, kingdoms, principalities, provinces, cities, towns, districts, fortresses, harbours, rivers, lakes, &c. of Hindostan, and the adjacent countries, India beyond the Ganges, and the eastern archipelago; together with sketches of the manners, customs, institutions, agriculture, commerce, manufactures, revenues, population, castes, religion, history, &c. of their various inhabitants / By Walter Hamilton.

  • Hamilton, Walter, M.R.A.S.
Date:
1828
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Credit: The East-India gazetteer; containing particular descriptions of the empires, kingdoms, principalities, provinces, cities, towns, districts, fortresses, harbours, rivers, lakes, &c. of Hindostan, and the adjacent countries, India beyond the Ganges, and the eastern archipelago; together with sketches of the manners, customs, institutions, agriculture, commerce, manufactures, revenues, population, castes, religion, history, &c. of their various inhabitants / By Walter Hamilton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    WANDIWASH. 70S country above the Eastern Ghauts and the sea centres here; and it is said a larger assortment of goods can be procured at Walajanagur than in any town to the south of the Krishna, Madras excepted. The transportation of merchandize is ef¬ fected by large parties of inland car¬ riers, who possess numerous droves of oxen, there being no internal naviga¬ tion, and few roads fit for wheeled carriages.—(jP. Buchanan, Fullarton, Heyne, ^ c.) Wallajabad.—A town in the Carnatic province, district of Chingle- put, fourteen miles travelling dis¬ tance N.W. from Chingleput town. At this place there are extensive mi¬ litary cantonments, consisting of two low ranges of barracks for Europe¬ ans, besides accommodations for na¬ tive troopsbut in 1820, so altered was its comparative importance, that only one regiment of Madras infant¬ ry was stationed here.—{Fullarton, Waller.—A small town in the province of Aurungabad, division of Jooneer, about thirty-eight miles tra¬ velling distance S.S.E. from Poona. Waltier.—A small village in the Northern Circars, situated in the bay of Vizagapatam, about three miles and a half from the town of Vizaga¬ patam, with which it communicates by an excellent road across the inter¬ vening ridge. Below this village to¬ wards the beach is a group of houses, where the civil servants attached to the Vizagapatam station, and other European inhabitants, principally re¬ side. The mountains along this part of the coast present a bold front to¬ wards the sea, forming a grand sweep to the north-east of Waltier, where they appear to terminate in an iso¬ lated conical eminence called the Sugar-loaf Hill.—{Fullartoh, §'c.) Walak. — A subdivision of the Gujerat peninsula, which having passed from the Catties to the Coolies, who in their turn were ex¬ pelled by the Bhownugger raja, has since been classed with Goelwara, Waluru.—A town in the Mysore province in the neighbourhood of Bangalore, which in A.D. 1800 con¬ tained 500 houses. Here are distil¬ leries of country rum, into which the astringent bark of the mimosa enters as an ingredient. Their mode of con¬ densing the liquor is very rude, and the spirit never being rectified by a second distillation, is execrable. The soil of some of the gardens at Wa¬ luru is remarkable deep, twenty feet of it having begn penetrated to arrive at water.—(F, Buchanan, <5:c.) Wandia.—A town in the province of Cutch, district of Wagur, situated on the north side of the Runn, im¬ mediately opposite to Mallia; lat. 23° 3' N., Ion. 70° 43' E. Wandipoor.—A town in the pro¬ vince of Bootan, about twenty-four miles travelling distance from Tas- sisiidon in an easterly direction, and esteemed by the Bootanners a place of great strength; lat. 27° 51' N., Ion. 89° 57' E. It stands on the nar¬ row extremity of a rock between the Matchieu, the Patchieu, and the Tehintchieu rivers, whose streams unite at its sharpened point, and form a river of considerable magnitude, which takes the title of Chantchieu, and flows south through the Rungpoor district, where it rejoices in the name of Gudadhar, and soon afterwards joins the Brahmaputra not far from Rangamatty. At Wandipoor there is a bridge of turj>entine fir of 112 feet span, without the least iron in its construction, yet it is said to have lasted 150 years without exhibiting any symptom of decay. Owing to the peculiarity of its position, Wan- dipoor appears to be agitated by a perpetual hurricane. This is one of the consecrated towns of Bootan, where a considerable number of gy- longs or monks are established.— {Turner, ^c.) Wandiwash.—A tow'n in the Car¬ natic province, seventy-three miles S.W. from Madras; lat. 12° 30'N., Ion. 79° 37' E. In September 1759 the British troops attacked this place.