Negapatam, a seaport of British India, on the Coromandel coast, 180 miles S. by W. of Madras city. Originally a Portuguese settlement, it was taken by the Dutch in 1660, and by the English in 1781. The port trades in cottons, live-stock, ghi (exported), and spices, piece-goods, coal, gunny bags (imported), to the total annual value of £900,000, chiefly with Burma, the Straits Settlements, and Ceylon. Pop. (1891) 59,221.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 7: Maltebrun to Pearson, p. 428
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