Coleroon, the largest and most northerly branch from the Kaveri, flows 94 miles, chiefly between Trichinopoly and Tanjore, into the Bay of Bengal. It is remarkable for its two weirs or dams, the anicuts, constructed in 1856.
Coleroon
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 343
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