3i22 On the Manufactures carried on at Bangalore , 



base is oxided, and totally free from all the obscurity of the 

 method now in use. Yours, E. B. 



P. S. As Mr. Davy's late experiments hold out to us the 

 prospect of decomposing several substances hitherto ranked 

 with simple bodies, I would beg leave to suggest the pre- 

 priety of adopting names for them as nearly as possible allied 

 to the nomenclature in use. I would call the base of the 

 muriatic acid, muria ; that of the boracic, borax ; and that 

 of the fluoric, fluor. We should not object to these words, 

 that they w''l be unmeaning in their new application, and 

 that same of them have been used before to signify other 

 substances. We should recollect that words are only the 

 signs of thlirgs, and possess no other relation to them than 

 that which is derived from custom : we should also remem- 

 ber, that the words borax and fluor, though formerly vised, 

 are no longer chemical terms, and may therefore without 

 impropriety be applied to any new substance. Upon this 

 principle, I have always lanw^nted that the base of nitric 

 acid was not called nitre, iiastead of azote or nitrogen ; for, 

 if the acid were named regularly after cither of these, it 

 would be the azotic or nitrogenic, and not the nitric, acid. 



LXJ. yksotiut of tJte Manufactures carried on at Bangalore y 

 and the Processes employed hy the Natives in Dyeing Silk 

 and Cotton, 



[Concluded from p. 272.] 



Jl he weaver* of Bangalore seem to me to be a very In- 

 genious class of men, and, with encouragement, to be 

 capable of making very rich, fine, elegant cloths of any 

 kind that may be in demand : but, having been chiefly ac- 

 customed to work goods for the use of the court at Seringa- 

 patam, they must now labour under great disadvantages ; 

 for it never can be expected that the court of Mysore should 

 equal that of Seringapatam, nor will the English officers 

 ever demand the native goods so much as the Mussulman 

 iirdars did. The manufacturers of this place can never, 

 therefore, be expected to equal what they were in Hyder's 

 6 reign^ 



