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CHINIPOORAM

Volume 6 · 78 words · 1842 Edition

a town of Hindustan, in the territories of the rajah of Mysore. It has no considerable trade, though it has a weekly fair. The town, fort, and suburbs contain above 900 houses, of which sixty are inhabited by Brahmins, and 200 by the garrison. The fort is well built, of stone and lime; and has a glacis ditch, and walls built of the same materials. It is thirty-nine miles north-west from Seringapatam. Long. 76.40. E. Lat. 12.53. N.