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NEWTYA

Volume 14 · 60 words · 1815 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 Rennel conjectures it to be the Nittius of Pliny; near which the pirates cruised for the Roman ship. The same writer places it near to $15^\circ 52' 30''$ north latitude, and $73^\circ 16' 30''$ east longitude.