Salset is an island lying in the great Indian ocean, north of Goa, and separated from Bombay by a narrow channel. It is seventy miles in compass, twenty in length, and fifteen in breadth. The soil is fruitful, and the island intirely under the dominion of the Portuguese. It has in it several villages inhabited by Heathens, Moors and Christians. Within the island, and four miles from any house, and surrounded by thick woods abounding with lions, tigers, monkeys, and other wild and venomous animals, stand four very high hills contiguous to each other, and looking like one intire rock by the surface, which bears strong marks of calcination. On the sides of these hills are many pagodas, caverns, apartments, and other excavations cut out of the rock, called at this day the city of Canorin, from a village of that name adjoining.