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FALSE POINT , a landlocked See also:

HARBOUR (from M.E. hereberge, here, an army; cf. Ger. Heer and -beorg, protection or shelter. Other early forms in English were herberwe and haiborow, as seen in various place names, such as Market Harborough.. The French auberge, an inn, derived through

harbour in the See also:

CUTTACK

Cuttack See also:

DISTRICT

district of See also:

Bengal, See also:

India. It was reported by the See also:

FAMINE (Lat. fames, hunger)

famine commissioners in 1867 to be the best harbour on the See also:

COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

coast of India from the See also:

HUGLI, or HOOGHLY

Hugli to Bombay. It derives its name from the circumstance that vessels proceeding up the See also:

BAY

Bay of Bengal frequently mistook it for Point Palmyras, a degree farther See also:

north. The anchorage is safe, roomy and completely landlocked, but large vessels are obliged to See also:

lie out at some distance from its mouth in an exposed roadstead. The capabilities of False Point as a harbour remained See also:

long unknown, and it was only in 186o that the See also:

PORT

port was opened. It was rapidly See also:

DEVELOPED

developed, owing to the construction of the See also:

ORISSA

Orissa canals. Two navigable. channels See also:

lead inland across the See also:

MAHANADI, or MAHANUDDY (" The Great River ")

Mahanadi See also:

DELTA (from the shape of the Gr. letter A, delta, originally used of the mouth of the Nile)

delta, and connect the port with Cuttack See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city. The See also:

trade of False Point is chiefly with other See also:

INDIAN

Indian harbours, but a large export trade in See also:

rice and oil-seeds has sprung up with See also:

MAURITIUS

Mauritius, the See also:

French colonies and See also:

France. False Point is now a See also:

REGULAR

regular port of See also:

CALL (from Anglo-Saxon ceallian, a common Teutonic word, cf. Dutch kallen, to talk or chatter)

call for Anglo-Indian See also:

COASTING

coasting steamers. Its capabilities were first appreciated during the Orissa famine of 1866, when it afforded almost the only means by which supplies of rice could be thrown into the See also:

province. A lighthouse is situated a little to the See also:

south of the anchorage, on the point which screens it from the See also:

SOUTHERN

southern See also:

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