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Vizagapatam

the chief town of presidency, British India; on the seacoast; 380 miles N. E. of Madras. It stands at the head of a bay, on a small river, and carries on a large coasting trade. One of the points of the bay, called the Dolphin's Nose, rises 1,500 feet investigation of the laws which govern animals, and having for their object the a kind calculated to inflict pain on living above the sea. settled there in the middle of the 17th century. tures of cotton cloth, gold and silver embroidery, silver, ivory and horn ornaments. The exports are chiefly piece goods, oil seeds, and sugar.

Pop. about 45,000. The district of V cupies the strip below the Eastern of the blood by Harvey; the treatment country behind; area, 18,344 square miles. The hills rise to the height of 5,- 000 feet. The crops are rice, oil seeds, A British factory was sively manufactured under European su- There are special manufacperintendence. This tract formed one of the northern Circars occupied by the British in 1767, and includes the semisugar cane and tobacco. Sugar is exteni Ghauts S. of Ganjam and the wild hill cupies the strip below the Eastern 45,000. The district of Vizagapatam oc- goods, oil seeds, and sugar. Pop. about ments. The exports are chiefly piece broidery, silver, ivory and horn orna- tures of cotton cloth, gold and silver emindependent states of the Jeypur agency. English publisher; born in London, July 30, 1820. He was the first publisher to introduce to English readers "Uncle

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