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ALLEPPI, or AULAPALAY

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 693 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALLEPPI, or AULAPALAY , a seaport of See also:southern See also:India, in the See also:state of See also:Travancore, 33 M. See also:south of See also:Cochin, situated on a See also:strip of See also:coast between the See also:sea and one of those backwaters that here See also:form the See also:chief means of inland communication. Pop. (1901) 24,918. There is a lighthouse, 85 ft. high, with a revolving See also:white See also:light visible 18 m. out at sea. Though the third See also:town in the state in point of See also:population, Alleppi is the first in commercial importance. It commands a See also:fine See also:harbour, affording safe anchorage for the greater See also:part of the See also:year. It was opened to See also:foreign See also:trade towards the latter end of the 18th See also:century. The exports consist of See also:coffee, See also:pepper, cardamoms and coco-nuts. There are factories for See also:coir-See also:matting. The See also:raja has a See also:palace, and See also:Protestant missionaries have a See also:church.

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