a sea-port town of India, on this side of the Ganges. It is seated on the coast of Coromandel, in the kingdom of Carnate, 70 miles north of Fort St George. Here the Dutch have a factory, and fort called the Fort of Guelderland. E. Long. 80. 1. N. Lat. 13. 34.

PALINURI PROMONTORIUM, (Virgil, Velleius,) with a cognominal port, was situated at the south extremity of the Sinus Pæstanus, on the coast of Lucania; so called from Palinurus, Æneas's steerman, who there perished. (Mela, Dionysius Halicarnassus.)