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On Ihe deduction of a Mean Result from a 



catecl. He built a fane to Narrayana-svami, in Vishnu chacra (fort) ; 

 and had the image made sacred. He restored and repaired many de- 

 cayed Saiva fanes. He also had many reservoirs dug and groves plant- 

 ed ; he acquired fame, made great presents and regularly paid his 

 tribute to the Sircar without balance left. A war falling out between 

 himself and the N^uvagada chief, he conquered ; and took back two 

 villages called Asalu and Cassalu, which they had wrested from him. 

 In consequence of the w'ar he fell into arrears of tribute, and owed 

 fourteen years payment. The Sircar in consequence recalled D'hanur 

 B'ho7iJu Rud gave him the country; while Sri-cara B' ho?tju was de- 

 tained at Jaggernaut. Afterwards D'hcmur Blionju for three years did 

 not pay tribute, and after opposing the Company, he died in Malwa. 



As the narrative of the race of Ranam B'honju^ has its origin in the 

 Mahah^harota, it follows that all who read or hear il will thence derive 

 great benefit. 



Crislma Bltotlu o^Ayica Siddhanti wrote the foregoing account, from 

 the poetical narrative by Rama Chandra Gura in the Odra (or Orissa) 

 language. 



V. — On the deduction of a Mean Result from a Numerical Register 

 of the Direction of the Wind. — By James Dalmahoy, Esq, of the 

 Madras Medical Establishment. 



With the view of recording numerically the direction of the wind, 

 and of obtaining the mean result of a series of observations, Lambert 

 divided the horizon into 360°, and placed zero of the scale at the south, 

 90° at the west, 180° at the north, &c.* The brief account of Lam- 

 bert's method in the accompanying note, does not allude to the mode 

 of deduciug a mean result, but it seems evidently implied that he re- 

 garded the direction denoted by the arithmetical mean of the numbers 



* The following quotation is from Professor Forbes' Report on Meteorology. " Of all 

 the columns of that too often unprofitable work, a meteorological diary, one of the most 

 profitless has generally been that devoted to the direction of the wind, as, in its usual form, 

 it does not admit of having any average taken, and therefore remains an undigested mass 

 of insulated observations. In order to draw any useful conclusion from this obser- 

 vation, we would therefore recommend the adoption of Lambert's numerical form, 

 in which the south is denoted by 0', and the angle is measured round the horizon by the 



W., N. and E. In this way S. W. is denoted by 45 o, W. by90o, &c Reports of ilte 



British Association, vol. 1, p. 249. 



