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unacquainted with before, but because it may interest the general 

 reader to see how this great theorem in physical Astronomy is 

 worked out, and, further, we submit it to our readers as a literary 

 curiosity, being the production of a native of India, among whose 

 brethren intellectual efforts of such character are too uncommon, to 

 permit us to pass by the present one, regardless of such a pheno- 

 menon 



Goday Vencata Juggarow is the son of M. Ry. Goday Soorea Narrain 

 Row, who, with his brother Pracasa Row, hold extensive Zemindaries, 

 under the British government, at Vizagapatam, and are well known, to all 

 residents in that neighbourhood, for their great intelligence and public 

 spirit, and for the munificence with which they support the character 

 of native gentlemen. 



Goday Vencata Juggarow is a worthy son of his excellent sire ; and 

 promises to be a distinguished instrument in the good work of elevating 

 the people of India from the character for indifference to intellectual ac- 

 quirements, too justly chargeable on them, we are sorry to say, and on 

 those of the Peninsula more especially. Two years ago, from an innate 

 desire of knowledge, he was induced to place himself under the tuition 

 of Mr. Taylor, of the Madras Observatory. At that time he was only ac- 

 quainted with the first principles of Arithmetic, and now, at the age of 

 19, we have Mr. Taylor's authority for saying, he is qualified to pass a 

 first class examination in Mathematics in any College in Europe. His 

 knowledge of the English language, also, is highly creditable, and his 

 acquirements, generally, would not disparage the character of a well 

 educated man in England. 



Vi e say these things, not to gratify his vanity, if that foible lurks in 

 his bosom, for we hope that he is so far advanced in knowledge 

 as to have become humble ; (to use the words of a master-spirit of our 

 age) " seeing that all the longest life and most vigorous intellect can 

 give him power to discover by his own research, or time to know by 

 availing himself of that of others, serves only to place him on the very 

 frontier of knowledge, and afford a distant glimpse of boundless realms 

 beyond, where no human thought has penetrated."* We have entered 

 on these remarks with the hope of stimulatinghimto continued labour in 

 the acquisition of knowledge, and to point out that, as Providence has 

 blessed him with excellent talents, and has placed him in a station of 

 life where his example will have great influence, it is hisbounden duty 

 to do all in his power for the promotion of education among his coun- 

 trymen, with the view of elevating them as a people in the moral and 

 intellectual scale. We hope, too, that his laudable example, will in- 

 duce others of our native fellow subjects to explore the pleasant paths 

 of European science and literature, and to send their children where a 

 knowledge of them may be acquired. —Editor. 



* Sir J. Herschcl's Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy, p, 6, 



