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158 Notices of Books, [no. 3, new series, a city at Armegon, or a shoal at Madras, and the latter would perhaps 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. Th6 company is, however, embarrassed by the difficulty of procuring labour. The Bengalees and Dangars are turbulent and ill-conditioned, and the Assamese 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 Indian Mail, April 15, 1857.

Lieut. H. G. Raverty of the Bombay Army is bringing out a Dicitonary of the Pashto language to consist of 40,000 words and to extend over 1,000 or 1,200 pages—also a Pushto Text book 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 Dorn, and the short Grammar published by Captain Vaughan at