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Rh gun under the arrangements proposed by you. I will send the order giving effect to above from this evening by my Serjeant-Major to Vizagapatam about 4 to day. If you have any thing in the v^^ay of instruction to send to the man who regulates the clock by which the gun is fired, let me know before hand please. Believe me, Waltair, Your's sincerely, 6th Dec. 1871. (Signed) C. G. GUNNING. Kindly return the " Proceedings of Government."

From The Indian Magazine, August 1887, issued by the National Indian Associstion London, in aid of Social Progress and Education in India

G. V. Juggarow's Observatory, Daba Gardens, Vizagapatam; Results of Meteorological observations, 1885. With an Introduction, containing Astronomical observations, &c., by A. V. Nursingarow, Esq., f. r. a. s., F. R. G. s., Calcutta : Thacker, Spink & Co.

Perhaps the most picturesque of all the coast districts of the Madras Presidency is Vizagapatam—the land of the Hindoo Mars, which is the meaning of the word—lying along the north-west shore of the Bay of Bengal. Here, in the chief native town of the district, lived in former days a wealthy Zemindar, G. V. Juggarow Esq., who, to the many acts of benevolence he practised among the people* around him, added a great taste for scientific enquiry, especially in the subject of Meteorology; for the furtherance of which, he established there in 1841 the excellent observatory which bears his name. In the introduction to this Report of Results, Mr. Juggarow's