likawn into a ftrait bar three quarters of an inch in breadth, 

 and three-eighiiis thick, hut was covered with cracks and flaws 

 froflfi end to end. The colour of tlje break was one (hade 

 iigliter tlian No. 1, it tone lefs out, was equally yolky, and 

 pofl'effed on the whoU; an afpefl very unfavourable ibr good 

 (le^l. mnn ■<■ . / ' "o-^i. 



The other two outfide quarters w«fe alfo drawn into (bape; 

 one under the tilt hammer, and the other by hand, Thete 

 were more folid in the fracture, poflelfed fewer fu^face'^ 

 cracks, ftood a higher degree of heat, tore out more, and ex- 

 hibited a iilky gloflfy grain, at leaft two (hades lighter in the 

 colour than the centre pieces. ',\ 



Forging 3d Cake. * 



One half of this cake, firft fubje^ed to be cut, was found Appearances on 

 .fofler than any of the- preceding, and exhibited no fymn-^'l''S'"g *^f "^'^ 

 (om of cracking. The other half was cut at three heats; 

 but found loofe and hollow in the extreme. A confiderable 

 portion of the iame brilHattt powder, formerly noticed, was 

 here again difengaged. It was carefully taken up for exami- 

 nation, and found to be very (ine ore of iron in a pulverefcent 

 •ilate, very obedient to the magnet, and without any doubt'^aH 

 •tinmetallized portion of that from which wootz is made. '' 



This curious circumftance led me to examine every pore 

 and cell throughout the whole fragments. On the upper fur- 

 face of two of them I found fmall pits containing a portion of 

 the ore, which had been (lightly agglutinated in the (ire, but 

 ftill highly magnetic. The upper furface of the prefent cake, 

 clofe by the gate or feeder, contained a large pit filled with a 

 'ftratum of femi-fufed ore, furmounted by a raafs of vitrified, 

 matter, which bore evident marks of containing calcareous 

 earth. • , 



Thofe who have devoted futHcieht attention to the affinities 

 of iron and earths for carbon, will be furprifed to find that, on 

 this particular fubjed, the rude fabricators of (leel in Hindoftan 

 have got the ftart of our more poli(hed countrymen in the 

 manufaftiire of (leel. 



Two bars of wootz were formed from this cake, and thefe 

 in point of quality inferior to any of thofe formerly produced. 

 The appearance of the metal was more varied, iefs homoge- 

 neousj and contained more diftind laminae with rufty furfaces, 

 tilian either of the two former cakes. 



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