INSCRIPTION IN ENGLISH

• 1.This Bridge
• 2.Erected as a Public Benefit
• 3.From a Legacy
• 4.By Bestowed
• 5.Mr. Adrian Four Beck
• 6.A Merchant of Madras
• 7.Is a monument
• 8.Useful as lasting
• 9.r Of the Good citizen's
• 10.Munificent – liberality
• 11.It was erected
• 12.By his executors
• 13.T. Pulling I Defries & P. Bodkin
• 14.From the plan
• 15.and under the direction
• 16.Lieut:t col:L Pat:K Ross
• 17.Chief Engineer
• 18.In the year of our lord
• 19.1786
• 20.Maj:r Gen:1 Sir Arch:d Campbell
• 21.Knight of the most Honble
• 22.Being then order of the batch
• 23.Governor of Fort St. George