BALISORE, a sea-port town of Asia, in the East Indies, to the north-west of the bay of Bengal. It is about four miles from the sea by land, but 20 by the river; seated in a very fruitful soil, producing rice, wheat, aromatic seeds, tobacco, &c. The inhabitants make several sorts of stuffs of cotton, silk, and a kind of grass. The place was given up to the English by the Nagpore rajah at the peace in 1803. E. Long. 86. 50. N. Lat. 21. 30.