a town of Hindustan, at the N.W. extremity of the Northern Circars, 43 miles N.W. from Ganjam. The town and neighbouring country formerly belonged to a native chief tributary to the British, who, failing in his feudal obligations, and rising in rebellion, was deprived of his possessions by the paramount power. This event occurred in 1835. The place had acquired an infamous celebrity from the encouragement afforded by its native rulers to the perpetration of human sacrifices; and upon its transfer to its new masters, measures were adopted for the suppression of the horrible practice. Several chiefs of the adjacent frontier tracts have entered into formal engagements to abandon the inhuman practice on condition of British protection; and the barbarous rite may now be regarded as effectually suppressed. The town of Goomsur is in N. Lat. 19. 50., E. Long. 84. 40.