BY THE SAME AUTHOR. HAND-BOOK TO THE MADRAS RECORDS, being a Report on the Public Records preserved in the Madras Government Office from the earliest period to 1834, with an Introduction and notes, 8vo. Price Rs. 2-8. MADRAS IN THE OLDEN TIME: being a History of the Presidency from the First Foundation of Fort St. George in 1639 to the French occupation of Madras in 1746-48. Compiled from Official Records. Complete in three volumes, small quarto, bound in cloth, with a large Map of Madras and its Environs in 1733 and 1862. Price Rs. 15. GEOGRAPHY OF HERODOTUS, developed, explained, and illustrated. from modern researches and discoveries, 8vo. with maps and plans. Price Rs. 12. LIFE AND TRAVELS OF HERODOTUS, in the Fifth Century before Christ an Imaginary Biography founded on fact, illustrative of the history, manners, religion, literature, arts, and social condition of the Greeks, Egyptians, Persians, Babylonians, Hebrews, Scythians, and other ancient nations, in the days of Pericles and Nehemiah, 2 vols. post 8vo. Price Rs. 14. Analysis and Summary of Old Testament History, post 8vo. seventh edition. New Testament History, post 8vo. fourth edition. -Herodotus, post 8vo. second edition. Price Rs. 3-8 each volume. NEARLY READY. COTTON MAP TO THE MADRAS PRESIDENCY; exhibiting on the same scale as Major SCOTT's Map (24 miles to the inch) a full and complete delineation of all the Cotton Districts, Cotton marts, roads, canals, rivers and ports in the Madras Presidency; together with coloured representations of localities capable of producing Cotton. TO THE COTTON CULTIVATION IN THE MADRAS PRESIDENCY: EXHIBITING THE PRINCIPAL CONTENTS OF THE VARIOUS PUBLIC RECORDS AND OTHER WORKS FORM, IN ACCORDANCE WITH A RESOLUTION OF THE PREFACE. IN submitting the present Hand-Book to the public, but few observations are necessary. The compiler has simply reduced a mass of matter to a convenient form for perusal and reference. The necessity for such a condensation, will he trusts, prove a sufficient apology to the many distinguished writers, whose minutes, reports, and correspondence have been thus abridged and arranged in a continuous narrative. In the last Chapter however, which exhibits the present condition of the Cotton culture in the Madras Presidency, it has been deemed expedient to present the reader with full extracts from the letters of the Collectors of the several Districts, rather than with abstracts; as the subject matter appears to be of greater importance, inasmuch as it refers to the present condition and prospects of the country. The large Cotton Map of the Madras Presidency, which was to have accompanied the present volume, is very nearly ready, and will be published in the course of two or three weeks. It is being executed on the same scale as Major Scott's Map (24 miles to the inch), and will comprise a full and complete delineation of all the Cotton districts, marts, roads, canals, rivers and ports in the Madras Presidency, together with a coloured representation of localities capable of producing Cotton. This Map has been prepared in the Department of Public Works, and the writer cannot but express his sense of the intelligence and zeal displayed by Mr. DAVID 104784 |