Troccfs ofmal'mg Attar, &c. 347 



h box of feeds, from the iflands we had vifitcd, and the 



s of Svria. On our arrival at Aleppo we employed our- 



felves in examining the fituation of the French in that city. 



We collected information rcfpe&ing the commerce carried 



on by the Europeans with the inhabitants, and fent to C. 



Verniac a memoir on that fubjeet. We alfo made various 



pbfervations in regard to natural hiftory and geology. We 



procured feveral birds^ and a few quadrupeds : after which 



we fet out, towards the end of winter, in company with a 



caravan; and, palling through Orfa, Merdin, Nefbin, and 



ulj arrived at Bagdad without any accident. 



(To be conclude J in the next Number.J 



II. Pfocefs of making Attar, or EJfential Oil of Rofes. By 

 Lieut. Col. Pol ik r. From the Afiatic Refearches. 



HP 

 A HE attar is obtained from the rofes by fimple diftilla- 



tion, and the following is the mode in which I have made it. 

 A quantity of from rofes, for example forty pounds, are 

 put in a ftill with fixty pounds of water, the rofes being left 

 as they are with their calyxes, but with the ftems cut clofe. 

 The mafs is then well mixed together with the hands, and a 

 gentle fire is made under the ftill : when the water begins to 

 grow hot, and fumes to rife, the cap of the ftill is put on, 

 and the pipe fixed ; the chinks are then well luted with, 

 pafte, and cold water put on the refrigeratory at top: the re- 

 ceiver is alfo adapted at the end of the pipe; and the fire is 

 continued under the ftill, neither too violent, nor too weak. 

 When the impregnated water begins to come over, and the 

 ftill is very hot, the fire is leffencd by gentle degrees, and the 

 diftillation continued till thirty pounds of water are come 

 over, which is generally done in about four or five hours: 

 this rofe-water is to be poured again on a frefh quantity 

 (forty pounds) of rofes, and from fifteen to twenty pounds of 



watd 



