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NEWTYA

Volume 14 · 60 words · 1810 Edition

a port little known, on the coast between Goa the capital of the Portuguese settlements in India, and the English settlement of Bombay. Mr Renel conjectures it to be the Nirias of Pliny; near which the pirates cruized for the Roman ship. The same writer places it near to 15° 52' 30" North Latitude, and 73° 16' 30" East Longitude.