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MADRAS IN THE OLDEN TIME:

BEING A

HISTORY OF THE PRESIDENCY

FROM


THE FIRST FOUNDATION TO THE GOVERNORSHIP

OF THOMAS PITT, GRANDFATHER OF THE EARL OF CHATHAM

1639-1702


COMPILED FROM OFFICIAL RECORDS,


BY

J. TALBOYS WHEELER,

Author of the "Geography of Herodotus," &c. &c. and Professor of Moral Philosophy and Logic at the Madras Presidency College.




MADRAS:

PRINTED FOR J. HIGGINBOTHAM, MOUNT ROAD,

BY GRAVES AND CO., SCOTTISH PRESS.

1861.