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TUTICORIN

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 488 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TUTICORIN , a seaport of See also:

British See also:India in the See also:Tinnevelly See also:district of See also:Madras. Pop. (19or), 28,048. It is the See also:southern See also:terminus of the See also:South See also:Indian railway, 443 M. S.W. of Madras See also:city. In connexion with this railway a daily steamer runs to See also:Colombo, 149 M. distant by See also:sea. Tuticorin is an old See also:town, See also:long in See also:possession of the Dutch, and has a large See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:population. It used to be famous for its See also:pearl See also:fisheries, which extended from Cape See also:Comorin to the Pamban Channel between India and See also:Ceylon; but owing to the deepening of the Pamban Channel in 1895 these See also:banks no longer produce the pearl oysters in such remunerative quantities, though See also:conch shells are still found and exported to See also:Bengal. As a set-off to this, Tuticorin has advanced greatly as a See also:port since the opening of the railway in 1875, though it has only an open roadstead, where vessels must See also:anchor two and a See also:half See also:miles from the See also:shore; it is the second port in Madras and the See also:sixth in all India. The exports are chiefly See also:rice and livestock to Ceylon, See also:cotton, See also:tea, See also:coffee and spices. There are factories for ginning and pressing cotton and a cotton See also:mill.

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