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The oil of marca is expressed in considerable, quantltlei 

 about Cazcnpoor, and Furruckabad, and being mixed 

 With, is sold as ghee, 



This fatty substance very rarely comes pure from the hills, 

 and receives more and more adulteration, (by adding the 

 purest ghee,) as it passes down to the lower provinces : age 

 gives it the firmness of pure tallow. 



Additional Remarks by the same, in consequence of a few 

 Queries transmitted to Mr. Gott. 



It is supposed there might be annually procured from Farther re- 

 twenty to thirty maunds, at the price of fourteen or fifteen mar 

 rupees the maund. 



1st. It is never taken inwardly as a medicine, nor is it 

 used in diet ; further than that the dregs, after the purer 

 fatty substance is expressed, are eaten, as a substitute for 

 ghee, by the peasants, or labourers, who extract the fat. 



2d. I have some pure, which has been by me ten months, 

 and it has neither acquired colour, nor bad smell. 



3d. After it is imported into Rohilkhund, it is scented 

 -with utr, (an essential oil,) and a little of the flour of In- 

 dian corn (zea mays) is added, to increase its consistency. 

 N. B. This flour is added on account of its peculiar 

 whiteness. 



4th. If it is clean, and free from dirt, it never undergoes 

 any purification ; if the contrary, it is heated, and filtered 

 through a coarse cloth. 



5th. The flowers are never used. The pulp of the fruit 

 is eaten by some ; it is of a sweet, and flat taste. 



The timber is white, soft, and porous ; and is never Wood, 

 made any use of by the natives. It is nearly as light as the 

 $emul) or cotton tree (bombax hcptaphj/llum). 



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