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Jakpiet, 1375.] MALIFATTAN. in infinite quantities." Tlia name reappears in the Papal record* in OontwdOQ with the nomination of Jonlar.m&. the Pope in swn ! cuniutuuding thn unw Bub op tn the Cbfi of Columhum, and "to tho wboli? b Christian people dwelling in M o I p li ti iu m," m The 'i! I > Olfaar notice that I una find in in the intenwting memoranda of Joseph fch'fl Indian of Cranganore [tiem 1 50(1) published in t ki r- Ifomu Or&t, After noticing li".* former trade o f (.ho Chinese ( i n. c o 1 a e C a t ft i i ) with Calient, and their abandonment of on account of the king'* ilKtren Intent of tbein, he goes on i " Post hoc udiveru urheiu M u ila - pctum, quae orbs parol regi Naraindo ; regie rtwpieit orientcm, et distal- ab Jndo flu milliaribus xe. Ibi ntino sna exeroent tt men i Thfi statement about the Indus is pcTplexing.-r but the eastern aspect, and tlm subjection to the Xarsinglia, or king of YijAyfttAgOT, that the place was on the Ccrotnuudol coast. r, does not mean St. Thomas 1 *, for In, unotber passage ha speaks of that a? M t 1 a par » **url>3 . . . tram malar promont in mare prominet." Thi*, and the mention of the pearbntdim-y by Friar J , are con* sfdofubfo obstacles to the JdontH of the two places, though the Jlolcpor of Jardonoi seems in faronr of that identification. la there any evidence Input vrofl qnontcd by the Chinese traders P Hitter cites um« China pa Urn, applied to Mndran, an » trace of indent Chinese traffic there, I hare ebewlierc objected to this statement • ■ .1 from J, r ho name in question, pivperJy ChcnnnpaLtan or Chcunapo- pattan, was bestowed on the site granted to the English in 16$!) by too Noik of Ching!epat T in honour of that chief* a foilier-in-law, I by name. Hut this may not bo cone I the Naik may have only modified tn existing name, as often happens. And 1 h) Ilai-roa say»§ ; Ugh Ute ^rcataess which the city of Meliu- por possessed in those (ancient) days had, by the time oar people arrived, become almost anni- od by the warn that occurred iu tin Chi new, who had held in that place their ■ rw RajruOdi, Annate j Bschttort. An, 1330. It. t From looUutr p***&tft> be «eakt woa bj Iaditf to Bt«aa Qaaga. Fo«dbij be ma aboina a taap loa&Aod «a rmUj^m'i,t&irtikbUi*Jjuia«iicMtakiib«niiK>aof tha QaofSa, principal seftlenicuUf,.— of wliiefi vre s*o trace* to thifl day m their gnat edifices." — This sterna at any rata to imply traditi m: | iiinoso frvquontiug Muillpur. BarboMa Also Uilb a wtory of Chinese in connexion with the tomb of lliomaa. Chinese ooina hnve heetj found on the leach, I biiiinve, at rnriottK poutCs down tlte coaat as far na K ival, both li y Col. M»kennc*s people KOd bj Sir WalterEHiut'ajhnewhatBeRanwi Kays of buildings left by the Chinese warns n* to re< :, has taken plaoe in some instances certainlr, between Chinas and Jain a s. Thia ia particularly the OftSC, n veil has pointed nnt to iu(; with regard to tbe famonji China Pagoda of NegnpaUun, the destruction of which, I may observe, has been variously ascrib*! totho Ktiiwuy Comjianyand College "!:'.- ■:-. ' /if /mam qui ■'.'" 1 urasi at [east it waa not tlie Public Works De|wirtn] My own impression Itas always been that •ttftn was to be Sought farther snath than Madras, but the only nap on which 1 could fver trace such a name is one in the Ltitrt* Kdi- jittnki (RecaoilXV.) representing the southern part ' inmiuidol oo&gt In tins Male- pat an nppcury in l*alk'* Boy north of Kami- fliTOram, aboui i<»n of Tondai— scarcely a possible place, I itna.giuc, for a seaport fre- t^uented by foreign trade. 1 have generally found my ideas recur to Ncgo- panvm as the most probable locality. Dr. Cald- fhai thai Juiua Towex aforesaid was Kouietimea called lbs ' * Tower of the afwlls- ' ' passible that Xegapfttom, so long o»o of the most frequents I ports on the coast, was ever llalla pat tan? The three uaiuea " 1'^' lan, Jl.ili fatton, and Kityil" would then be in proper order, l-nttim tv.ptw.en ling K.A vArl- paUanam (as Mr. Dnmoll i^nttrttw), Mali- ftUan'-Negapatom, and Kyd i Kayat af rrw- mmtth at the Tnmrapcrni.|| < 'urtltorj is not X fl g » p a I DO the city which ii Bometimen callml the u city of Coromondol," narking it as loo place on the coast which foreigncra rocognnted as the great place of traf- lic> just as old geographers give us the city of IB: , <89 ; hncV* ifavlrcu in fi* Qidr* ij, A<- p. lxxri. Iw. 11L Ut. IK ct. '■AitiionAftft map jtat ailaded to pi— da C»* I in its proper poaatioa.