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 grafs. The English, French, and Dutch, have factories here; but they are now of no great account. E. Long. 85. 20. N. Lat. 21. 30.