The river which runs past _Virapatnam_, and discharges itself into the sea on the west of _Puduceri_, is called properly _Ciovanàru_, and not _Chonenbar_, as it is named by the European geographers. _Aru_, in the Malabar and Tamulic languages, signifies a river, and _Ciovano_ red: the compound word is _Ciovanàru_, the red river: and its water, on account of the earth which it washes down in its course, is sometimes indeed of a blood-red colour. But as the Indians shorten the first half of the word, and say _Ciona_, or _Tchona_, instead of _Ciovana_, the Europeans have mutilated it completely, and made of it _Chonenbar_. A similar mutilation of Indian words and appellations is in general not uncommon, especially when they are introduced into foreign languages. On the map of Coromandel, published by M. De la Tour at Paris, in the year 1770, the above river is distinguished by the improper name of _Chonenbar_. That the case is the same with the word _Coromandel_, used instead of _Ciòlamandala_, has been observed before. M. D’Anville, with equal impropriety, not only in his _Geographical Antiquities of India_, printed at the king’s printing-house at Paris, in the year 1775, but also in all his maps of India, gives the name of _Carnata_ to a large kingdom lying to the west of _Puduceri_. Its proper name is _Carnàda_; that is, the black land; from _Car_, black, and _Nada_, land. It is so called in the Tamulic and Malabar languages, in order to distinguish it from _Ciòlamandala_, the land of millet; for the millet thrives best on the districts not far from the sea coast. But the former land lies at a distance from the sea; abounds with excellent pastures; and produces large quantities of rice, pepper, cotton, and other things of the like kind, which can neither grow nor be cultivated in a sandy soil impregnated with marine salt. Of a hundred Indian names which belong to towns and villages in those districts, there are scarcely ten which have not been mutilated and corrupted by foreigners. Those who study the history and geography of India in the works of the Europeans, will every moment meet with passages which require to be amended. In order that this may be done in part, I shall here present the reader with an etymological list of the principal places and towns on the coast of _Ciòlamandala_, or, as the Europeans say, of _Coromandel_; and shall adhere as much as possible to the orthography of the Indians. NAMES OF CITIES, TOWNS, &C. IN CARNADA AND CIÒLAMANDALA. _Valiacàda_, the great mountain; or _Valiacadà_, the great passage, or ford, called by the Europeans _Pallicate_; is a city on the sea coast, at the mouth of a small river. The Dutch have a settlement here. _Ottocutta_, or _Ottukottei_, a solitary city, a solitary castle.