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

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

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