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Updated: May 27, 2025
It is not surprising that Mr. Francis Day was pleased with what he saw; for Madras is not without beauty. In those idyllic days, moreover, the Cooum river, which was known then as the Triplicane river and which even to-day can be beautiful, although for the greater part of the year it is no more than a stagnant ditch must have been a limpid water-way; and to Mr.
These old fellows coming back to-day from the sea would not see any great change in the appearance of the land; the trail of smoke going levelly south-west from a tall smoke stalk would be the most conspicuous change. The Cooum is silvery to look at, but it is by its smell that people remember it. Two steamers lie near us, just heaving perceptibly, as if breathing before taking the high road.
Roughly, it extended along the seashore from the mouth of the Cooum to an undefined point beyond the present harbour, somewhere in the neighbourhood of Cassimode, and inland as far as what was called the North River, which is now represented by Cochrane's Canal the canal that runs between the Central Station and the People's Park.
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