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Mr CadelPs Description of' the Hindoo Bellows. 



MEASUREMENT OF THE TEETH. 



Number of teeth 32 ; namely, 2 

 Canine, 10 Grinders, and 4 Incisive 

 Teeth in each jaw. 



Canine Teeth. In. 



Whole length of lower ca- 

 nine teeth, ... 2*7 

 Greatest length of fang, . .2 

 Smallest ditto, . . 1.6 

 Greatest length of the ena- 

 mel or exposed part of the 

 teeth, .... 1.1 

 Part exceeding the other 

 teeth in length, . . -4 



Lateral breadth measured on 



a level with the jaw. 

 Breadth from before inwards. 



Incisive Teeth. 



Whole length of the lateral, 1.5 



Of enamel exposed, . . .^ 



Breadth of cutting surface, .4 



Ditto of central teeth, . .4 



The front teeth of the upper jaw 

 greatly resemble those of the lower, 

 with the exception of the middle in- 

 cisive teeth, which are twice the 

 width of the lateral ones. 



Description of the Hindoo Bellows, with Remarks on the occur- 

 rence of a similar Bellows in Europe. By W. A. Cadell, 

 Esq. F.R.S. L. & E., M.W.S. &c*. Communicated by the 

 Author. 



X HE Museum of the University of Edinburgh possesses a set 

 of models of machines and tools used in the various trades which 

 are practised in India. These models are carefully and neatly 

 executed ; and, as they were made in India, they may be con- 

 sidered to be authentic and faithful representations*!-. Amongst 

 them is the Bhatee or Hindoo bellows, Plate II. It is a very 

 simple machine, consisting of two leather bags. At the mouth 

 of each bag, two long, narrow, flat pieces of wood are sewed to 

 the edge of the leather, so as to give the mouth of the bag the 

 form of a slit, which is closed tight when the flat surfaces of the 

 wooden lips are brought together. Each bag terminates in a 

 nozle ; the two nozles are placed in one twere j, which conducts 

 the blast to the charcoal fire placed at the mouth of the twere. 



• Read before the Wemerian Natural History Society 7th April 1827. 



"t* The merit of having formed this interesting technological collection, is 

 due to the late Miss Margaret Tytler, under whose superintendance the mo- 

 dels were made, during her residence at Patna and in the Tirhoot, from the 

 year 1815 to 1821. The models represent the implements used by the dif- 

 ferent classes of Hindoo and Mahometan labourers and artisans, and were be- 

 queathed by Miss Tytler to the University of Edinburgh. 



X The word twere is from tuyere, French. 



