Madras: Its Army and Commerce Viewed in Connection With Bengal Policy (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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Naruan having provided no harbour along the east coast of India to guide the pioneers of com merce in the selection of a centre for imports and ex ports, they chose the locality now known as the Town of Madras for this purpose, on account of its centri cal position, and its facilities for free communication with the interior. The main disadvantages against which this locality has had to contend, have been~its exposure to a dangerous surf, and its liability, during periods of war, to sudden and effective attack. But the choice of the site was on the whole judicious, and the town has risen to a high commercial rank in the face of these disadvantages, and in spite of its neither possessing, like Bombay, a noble natural harbour, nor, like Calcutta, lying on the bank of a great and navigable river, which cheaply carries to its store houses the surplus produce of a vast, fertile and pcpu lous interior. N 0 mean testimony has been paid to the Wisdom of the selection by its being recently chosen as the point of junction for all telegraphic intercourse between China and Australia on the one hand, and India, Europe and America on the other.

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