. Pictorial history of China and India; comprising a description of those countries and their inhabitants. Black Town of Madras. 482 INDIA, HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE. Indian merchants, who were in general very wealthy. This portion of thecity, together with a space allotted to the poorer natives, was called theBlack town, and the European part was called the White town. Many ofthe natives, in both the city and district, were weavers in the employmentof the East India Company. Madras is not very well situated as a trading caphal, on account of thedifficulty of approaching it by sea, as it poss
. Pictorial history of China and India; comprising a description of those countries and their inhabitants. Black Town of Madras. 482 INDIA, HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE. Indian merchants, who were in general very wealthy. This portion of thecity, together with a space allotted to the poorer natives, was called theBlack town, and the European part was called the White town. Many ofthe natives, in both the city and district, were weavers in the employmentof the East India Company. Madras is not very well situated as a trading caphal, on account of thedifficulty of approaching it by sea, as it possesses no harbor or inlet of anykind to break the violence of the surge, which rolls heavily upon the coastat all seasons of the year, particularly from October to January, when shipscan neither arrive nor depart, on account of the storms and typhoons thatprevail during the whole of that period. Even at tlue most favorable seasonof the year, vessels usually anchor a mile or two from the shore, and theircargoes are conveyed to land on a kind of raft called a catamaran, which isconstructed of three flat
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