an island of Asia, in the East-Indian ocean, near the peninsula on this side the Ganges, and on the coast of the kingdom of Deccan. It is 25 miles in length, and 12 in breadth; and is very fertile in rice, fruit, and sugar-canes. It belongs to the Portuguese, and the Jesuits possess the best part of it. It has a great many villages and churches; but no town, except an old one called Cora, hewn out of the side of a rock, which is extremely ancient. It is near a mile in length, and has many antique figures and columns, curiously carved in the rock; at present it has no inhabitants but wild beasts and birds of prey. They have no trade, except in dried fish, because it is so near Bombay, being only separated from it by a channel half a mile over, which is fordable at low water. E. Long. 72. 15. N. Lat. 19. c.