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tile therefore i3resents these colours, — white, 

 black, with purple tinge, azure, and green; 

 when the green glaze is used on a dark ground, 

 white clay is laid, over which the green glaze 

 is put, and when fixed the tile presents a dark 

 green ground with bright green figures. These 

 tiles are in two colours. The brown glaze is 

 used in the same way as the last, and gives 

 the colours of dark brown and yellow. These 

 comprise the colours commonly produced, the 

 glazes are formed of the base of sand and 

 litharge, six of the former to twenty of the 

 latter, which is the transparent glaze. The 

 green has added one and a half of oxide of 

 copper, and the brown two and a half of Kiir- 

 majee, which appears to be oxide of iron 

 with a little cobalt mixed with it. The sand 

 used for the glass is brought from Sehwan, 

 the flint for the porcelain clay from Mount 

 Anjar; the cobalt is called auria, the litharge 

 Murdar Sing, and the substance called Kiirmajee, 

 which gives colour to the brown glaze, is 

 principally oxide of iron." 



The entire household furniture of Khyrpoor 

 can be comprised in a single word, ''the char- 

 poy." The poorest individual possesses one or 



