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water, at about the temperature of one hundred and twenty 

 degrees of Fahrenheit, adding fifty ounces of powdered 

 chaya, and allowing the whole to boil for three hours ; 

 take the pot off the rire, but let the cloth remain in it until 

 the liquor is perfectly cool : then wring it gently, and hang 

 it up in the sun to dry. 



6th, Mix intimatelv together, by hand, about a pint 

 ineasure of fresh sheep's dung, with a gallon of cold water,, 

 in which soak the cloth thoroughly, and inuiicdiately take 

 it out, and dry it in the sun. 



7 th, Wash the cloth well in clean water, and spread it 

 out in the sun on a sand-bank (which in India is univer- 

 sally preferred to a grass-plac) for six hours, sprinkling it 

 from time to time, as it dries, with clean water, for tlie 

 purpose of finishing and perfecting the colour, «\hich will 

 be of a very fine bright red. 



Calcutta, Oct. 4, 1803. J. MaCHLACH LAN. 



Charles Taylor, Esq. 



Directions fur dyeing of a beautiful Red, eight Ounces of 

 Cotton Thread. 



1st, Put one gallon and a half, by measure, of sap-wood 

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

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

 for use. 



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

 Three-quarters of a pint of Gingelly oil ; one pint, by 

 measure, of sheep's dung, intimately mixed by hand in wa- 

 ter ; two pints of the above ley. After mixing these ingre- 

 dients well, pour the mixture sradually upon the thread into 

 another vessel, wetting it only a» the thread, by being 

 squeezed and rolled about bv the hand, imbibes it, continu- 

 ing to do so until the v.hole is completely soaked up, and 

 allow the thread to remain in this state until next day. 



3d, Take it up, and put it in the sun to dry ; then take a 

 pint and a half of ash-ley, in which squeeze and roll the 

 thread well, and allow it to remain till next day. 



4th, Squeeze and roll it in a like quantity of ash-Icy, and 

 put it in the sun to dry ; when drv, squeeze and roll it 

 again in the ley, and allow it to remain till next day. 

 , .5th, Let the same process be repeated three or four times, 

 and intermit till next day. 



fith. Ley the thread once, as the day before, and, when 



well dried in the sun, prepare the following liquor : One 



gill of GinucMvoil; one pint and a half of ash-lcv. — In 



P 3 ' this 



