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NELLORE TALUK. 271 temporary with the preceding, who translated the Rámijana; and Alasani Peddana, the poet-laureate at the court of Rajá Krishna Devariyalu (1509-30), whose reign is regarded as the Augustan era of Telugu poetry. There is one printing-press in the District, at which the Nellore Gasette is published monthly in English and Telugu. Medical aspects. -- The climate of Nellore is generally regarded as dry and salubrious, being subject to no sudden changes of temperature. The most trying season for Europeans is the period from April to June, when the westerly wind blows from the inland plateau. The monthly mean temperature varics from about 74° F. in December to 90° in May. The District receives its rainfall from both the north-east and the south-west monsoons, the former predominating in the north, and the latter in the south. The average annual rainfall for six years ending 1875 was returned at 36'4 inches, of which 22'15 inches were brought by the north-east or early, and 14'32 inches by the south-west or late, monsoon. The rainfall in 1982-83 was 336 inches. The rainy months are June and July, October, November, and December. In the famine year of 1876-77 both monsoons failed; and the total rainfall amounted to only 12°32 inches, or a deficiency of 21.15 inches. In 1882, however, between May and December, 48 inches were gauged at Nellore. The principal diseases are intermittent fever of a mild type, chronic rheumatism, leprosy, elephantiasis or 'Cochin-leg, the curious affection of the foot known as Morbus entophyticus pedis, cancer of the face, and guinea-worm. Diarrhæa and dysentery are common, and both cholera and small-pox often make their appearance in an epidemic form. The dispensary at Nellore town was attended in 1880-81 by 396 in-door and 12,762 out-door patients. Total number of persons vaccinated (1880), 13,073; total cost, £718. [For further information regarding Nellore District, see Manual of the Nellore District, by Mr. J. A. C. Boswell, C.S. (Madras Government Press, 1873). Also the Settlement Report of Nellore District, by Mr. C. Rundall, 1870; the Madras Census Report for 1881; and the several annual Administration and Departmental Reports of the Madras Government.] Nellore.— stíluk or Sub-division of Nellore District, Madras Presidency. Area, 638 square miles. Population (1881) 163,740, namely, $1,167 males and $2,573 females. Hindus numbered 150,708 ; Muhammadans, 11,894; Christians, 1121; and 'others,' 17. The táluk contains i town and 151 villages, with 33,975 houses. In Nellore túluk there is comparatively little jungle; there is little cultivation in the eastern villages, but a good deal in the western. Two supplying channels from the south side of the Nellore anicut, with numerous feeders to the different tanks, bring a large area of rice land under cultivation. All land that can be irrigated is being rapidly taken up,