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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 would 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. The outturn for 

 1856-57 is expected to reach 700,0001bs. The 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 

 said about the financial position of the association. — Allen's Indian 

 Mail, April 15, 1857. 



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Oriental. 



Lieut. H. G. Raverty of the Bombay Army is bringing out a 

 Dictionary of the Pushto language to consist of 40,000 words and 

 to extend over 1,000 or 1,200 pages — also a Pushto Text booh 

 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. Raverty 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 Chrestomathy of Prof. 

 Bernhard Dom, and the snort Grammar published by Captain Vaughan at 



