Home1771 Edition

COCHIN CHINA

Volume 2 · 65 words · 1771 Edition

a kingdom of India, situated between 104° and 109° E. long, and between 10° and 17° N. lat. being bounded by the kingdom of Tonquin on the north, by the Indian ocean on the east and south, and by the kingdom of Cambodia on the west; it is upwards of four hundred miles long, and one hundred and fifty broad, producing chiefly silk and rice.