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PULICAT

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 640 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PULICAT  , a

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town of
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British
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India, in
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Chingleput
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district,
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Madras, 25 M . N. of Madras
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city . Pop . (1901), 5448 . The Dutch built a fort here as
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early as 1609, and it was for a
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long
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time their
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chief
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settlement on the Coromandel
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coast . Repeatedly captured, it did not finally become British until 1825 . It gives its name to the Pulicat
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lake, a shallow
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lagoon stretching for about 37 M. along the coast . The seaward
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side is formed by the
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island of Sriharikot, which supplies firewood to Madras city .

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