Fort St GEORGE, a town and fort on the coast of Coromandel, in the Hither India: E. long. 80°, and N. lat. 13°.
The town is divided into the White and Black town. The fort, and White-town, which adjoins to it, are inhabited only by British; the whole circumference, which is not above half a mile, being surrounded by a stone wall. The outward, or Black-town, called Madras, has been lately encompassed by a stone-wall and bastions, and is about a mile and a half in circumference; the whole being almost environed by a river and the sea.