a seaport of Hindustan, situate on the western coast, and within the limits of the presidency of Bombay. It is a considerable place, though its commerce has now greatly fallen off; and it makes a conspicuous figure from the sea, the churches and houses being all white. The Parsees have a temple here, in which they maintain that the sacred fire brought with them from Persia nearly twelve hundred years ago is still burning. Ship-building to a considerable extent is here carried on, the teak forests being at no great distance. The harbour is convenient for small vessels, there being nearly seventeen feet of water at the bar. Damaun was taken by the Portuguese in 1531, and still remains in their possession. The Portuguese district, of which the town is the principal place, is about ten miles in length and five in breadth. Distance of town from city of Bombay, 101 miles north. Lat. 20. 24.; Long. 72. 53.

or the Border, a strip of territory in Hindustan, so called because it stretches between the Suliman Mountains and the river Indus. The tract formerly constituted a portion of Runjeet Singh's kingdom of Lahore, and is now annexed to the British province of the Punjab. Among the principal towns are those of Dera Ismael Khan, Dera Fati Khan, and Dera Ghazee Khan. The Damaun is 300 miles in length from the Salt Range on the north to the borders of Scinde on the south, and its average breadth is about sixty miles. Lat. 28. 40. to 33. 20.; Long. 69. 30. to 71. 20.