BEYPUR TOWN AND RIVER. '
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Bey pur {Beypore., Vaypura, Vada Perapafidd named by I'ipu, Sultdnpainam '). Small town and port on the coast of Malabar District,
—
Madras Presidency.
75° 50' 30" e.
ii° lo' n., long.
Lat.
houses,
926; population (r88i) 6739, namely, 5461 Hindus, 1264 Muhammadans, and 14 Christians. Situated near the mouth of the Beypur river,
Although many attempts have been its maritime position, it was r8s8, when Beypur was made a terminus of the Madras Rail-
6 miles south of Calicut.
made
to utilize the natural
not until
advantages of
The Portuguese {see Ferokh)
way, that the place became important. a factory (Kalyan) here, but as the site of the
capital
it
failed.
Tipu
established
selected
of Malabar, but hardly a vestige of
it
its
shortlived importance has survived. In 1797 sawmills, in 1805 a canvas factory, in 1848 ironworks, and still later, shipbuilding works were started at Beypur but all from one cause or another have failed.
In 1858, however, the railway gave the place its present importance. Being now a regular port for steamers, it possesses a custom-house. All the coffee of the Ochterlony valley, with much from the South-East Wainad, comes to Beypur for export. Rice forms the staple of the import trade. The bar admits craft of 300 tons to the river, and at low spring tides gives soundings of r 2 to r 4 feet. Iron ore and a sort of lignite both exist in the immediate vicinity of the town, and wood in great abundance. The teak grown on the Ghats to the east is floated down to Beypur for exportation. A few miles from the town lies the site of Ferokh, and miles east is Chataparamba (‘ Field of Death ’), remarkable for its 5 ancient stone circles and vol.
iii.
monuments
{see
Soc., Bombay, Salem and Coimbatore,
Trans. Lin.
324), resembling the cromlechs of
p.
and called by the natives being neither a
civil
kiida-kallu or
‘
umbrella stones.’
Beypore,
nor military station, has no administrative
offices.
For details of Imports (r88o-8i), ;j^29,o49, exports, ;^388,903. trade returns, see Calicut. Beypur {Beypore, Fauna-puya, ‘Gold River’). River in Malabar
—
Madras Presidency.
District,
vattam Pass.
descends by a
it
its
The
course, owing to the precipitous and densely
banks, the boulder-strewn channel, and numerous waterfalls,
picturesque and
receives
south of the Neddi-
over the Ghats north of the Karkur Pass.
scenery in this part of
wooded
hills
After draining the Ochterlony valley,
series of cataracts
is
Rises in the
many
rvild.
affluents
After reaching the
sive timber bridge spans the joint stream.
Arikkod,
it
joins the Kodiatur.
south-west
It
Then
—
flowing gently past
debouches into the sea
at
Beypur,
mouth by the Kadalvandi, with which it forms Chaliyam, containing the terminus of the Madras Railway,
being joined near the island of
low country the river where a mas-
the chief being the Karim-puya
line.
its
The Beypur
river is navigable for large boats all the
year round as high as Arikkod, and during the rains
much
farther.
