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7th. Wafti the cloth well in clean water, and fpread it outln^^u^ionsfor 

 in the fun on a fand-bank (which in India is univerfally pre- ^^jgi^j j-g/ty 

 ferred to a grafs-plat) for fix hours, fprinkling it from time to the Indian ib«- 

 time, as it dries, with clean water, for the purpofe of fiiiifh- ^ * • '^ 

 ing and perfeding the colour^ which will be of a very fine 

 bright red. 



J. MACHLACHLAN. 

 Calcutta, Oa. 4, 1803. 



Charles Taylor, Efq. 



Diredions for dying of a beautiful red, eight ounces of Cotton 

 Thread. 



1ft. Put one gallon and a half, by meafure, of fap-wood 

 aflies, into an earthen pot, with three gallons of water, and 

 allow the mixture to remain twenty-four hours to perfect it 

 for ufe. 



2. Put the following articles into an earthen pot, viz. Three- 

 quarters of a pint of Gingelly oil ; one pint, by meafure, of 

 flieep*s dung, intimately mixed by hand in water; two pints 

 of the above ley. — After mixing thefe ingredients well, pour 

 the mixture gradually upon the thread into another velTel, wet- 

 tinglit only as the thread, by being fqueezed and rolled about 

 by the hand, imbibes it, continuing to do fo until the whole is 

 completely foaked up, and allow the thread to remain in this 

 ilate until next day. 



3d. Take it up> and put it in the fun to dry; then take a pint 

 and a half of alh-Iey, in which fqueeze and roll the thread well 

 and allow it to remain till next day. 



4th. Squeeze and roll it in a like quantity of afh-ley, and put 

 it in the fim to dry ; when dry, fqueeze and roll it again in the 

 ley, and allow it to remain till next day. 



5th. Let the fame procefs be repeated three or four times^ 

 and intermit till next day. 



6th. Ley the thread once, as the day before, and, when 

 well dried in the fun, prepare the following liquor : One gill of 

 Gingelly oil ; one pint and a half of afh-ley. — In this fqueeze 

 and roll the thread well, and leave it fo till next day, 



7th. Repeat the procefs of yeflerday, and dry the thread in 

 the fun, 



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