FALSE POINT  , a landlocked

harbour in the Cuttack district of Bengal, India . It was reported by the famine commissioners in 1867 to be the best harbour on the coast of India from the Hugli to Bombay . It derives its name from the circumstance that vessels proceeding up the Bay of Bengal frequently mistook it for Point Palmyras, a degree farther north . The anchorage is safe, roomy and completely landlocked, but large vessels are obliged to lie out at some distance from its mouth in an exposed roadstead . The capabilities of False Point as a harbour remained long unknown, and it was only in 186o that the port was opened . It was rapidly developed, owing to the construction of the Orissa canals . Two navigable. channels lead inland across the Mahanadi delta, and connect the port with Cuttack city . The trade of False Point is chiefly with other Indian harbours, but a large export trade in rice and oil-seeds has sprung up with Mauritius, the French colonies and France . False Point is now a regular port of call for Anglo-Indian 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 province . A lighthouse is situated a little to the south of the anchorage, on the point which screens it from the southern monsoon .