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Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 6, p. 3.

ARMUR TALU 3 through a wild country, amid rocky hills and forest, and is therefore not much used for irrigation. Arkonam.-Town in the Walajapet dtluk of North Arcot District, Madras, situated in I3° 5' N. and 79° 40o E. It has sprung into importance only since it became a railway junction. Here the north- west and south-west lines of the Madras Railway meet, and here also is the terminus of the branch of the South Indian Railway which runs from the main line at Chingleput. Population (9o01), 5,313, many of whom are railway employes. The town is a Union under the Local Boards Act, and the head-quarters of a deputy-tahsdiddr and sub-magistrate. Armagon (Armeghon, Armugam).-Village in the Gudur taluk of Nellore District, Madras, situated in I3° 59' N. and 80° io' E., on the Bay of Bengal. The place is now sometimes called Monapalem, from a neighbouring village with a lighthouse, and sometimes Dugarazu- patnam, from another village where open communication with the sea can be maintained. It is said to be named after one Arumuga Mudaliyar, by whose assistance one of the earliest English settlements on the Coromandel coast, consisting of a factory defended by twelve pieces of cannon, was established in 1625. A lighthouse is maintained at Monapalem in 13° 53' N. and 80° 8' E., which gives a flash every 20 seconds visible 14 miles away, and warns vessels off the Armagon shoal, 6 miles from shore. The shoal is about Io miles long, and the shallowest patch on it has ix fathoms of water, and lies from 3½ to 51 miles east-by-north of the lighthouse. The still water inside the shoal is called Blackwood's Harbour, after Sir Henry Blackwood, once admiral on this coast, who had it charted, and suggested that it would make a practicable harbour. Seven miles north of Armagon lighthouse is Dugarazupatnam, a small village of 2,388 inhabitants on the Buck- ingham Canal. Being at the mouth of an entrance to the sea from the backwater in front of which Armagon stands, it was apparently the port of Armagon, and the two places are often spoken of as identical. Near by are the remains of an old fort built by the East India Company. Armur Taluk.-Tdluk in Nizamabad District, Hyderabad State, with an area of I,038 square miles. The population in I90o, including jdgzrs, was 122,455, compared with 123,285 in I891. The taluk contains two towns, ARMAIR (population, 9,03I), the head-quarters, and BALKONDA (5,118), a jagir town; and i60 villages, of which 51 are jagir. The land revenue in 190o was 3.6 lakhs. The statistics include the sub-tdluk of Bimgal, which was merged in Armur in 1905, and had an area of 491 square miles and a population of 54,290 in 1901. Rice is largely raised by tank irrigation. The taluk is hilly in the centre, and the Godavari flows through the north. B 2