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a city at Armegon, or a shoal at Madras, and the latter would per- 
haps not cost a twentieth part of the former, so that there can be no 
question which alternative to adopt. However all that has been 
written by many able men to show that an effective harbour exists 
under the shelter of the Armegon shoal, which is from 4 to 6 yards 
under water, goes to prove that Madras yrould be a harbour even 
before the Breakwater reached the surface of the Sea. 
The Directors of the Assam Tea Company report that the 
outturn for 1855-56 amounted to 638,000lbs. 'il'he outturn for 
1856-57 is expected to reach 700,0001bs. Th6 company is, how- 
ever, embarrassed by the difficulty of procuring labour. The Ben- 
galees and Dangars are turbulent and ill-conditioned, and the As- 
samese alone are to be relied on. Their wages have been raised 
eight annas a month, but the supply is still deficient. Nothing is 
£aid about the financial position of the association. — Allen's hidian 
Mail, April 15, 1857. 
NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
Oriental. 
Lieut. H. G. Raverty of the Bombay Army is bringing out a 
Diciionarij of the Pushto language to consist of 40,000 words and 
to extend over 1,000 or 1,200 pages — also a Ptishio Text hook 
which will contain selected portions. Poetical and Prose, of the 
most celebrated authors carefully collated from M.S. copies in the 
author's possession. When it is known that Lieut. Raveriy has 
been engaged over these works for the last nine years, and that he 
possesses probably a better knowledge of Pushto than any other 
European, we may feel certain that no labor has been spared 
in their compilation, and that they will fulfil the expectations of the 
most ardent linguist. A Pushto Grammar by the same author was 
published in 1856 and was noticed very favorably in the Athenaum 
of August 30, of that year, which says, 
" Except the meagre Vocabulary of Major Leech, the Chresiomathy of Prof, 
Bernhard Dorn, and th© short Grammar published hy Captain Vaitghan at 
