672 CALK 



Declared real value. 



Yards. 



Brought forward 825,680,121 17,305,922 



To Uruguay 17,917,715 342,744 



Argentine Republic . . . 29,133,627 671,638 



Gibraltar 16,018,400 322,499 



Malta 3,162,800 54,628 



Western Africa (British) . . 15,509,200 300,137 



British Possessions in South Africa 13,462,313 343,441 



Mauritius 4,714,119 81,092 



British India : Bombay and Scinde 32,697,100 635,500 



Madras . . . 4,989,660 88,613 



Bengal and Burmah 73,688,763 1,164,270 



Straits Settlements . . . 18,588,600 341,720 



Ceylon 6,355,800 114,755 



Hong Kong 12,416,400 304,896 



Australia 19,072,010 514,112 



British North America . . . 18,657,293 412,673 

 British West India Islands and 



British Guiana . . . 29,972,984 419,641 



Other Countries .... 4,638,359 86,613 



Total . . 1,144,665,264 23,304,694 



It would appear that occasionally attempts -were made, during the early days of 

 printing, to produce -work possessing a high degree of artistic excellence ; and as tho 

 specimens that have been preserved to our time are very rare, it is fair to conclude that 

 these experiments were not successful in a pecuniary point of view. In the museum 

 of the Peel Park, at Salford, there is a curious and interesting piece of printed 

 linen, bearing the date 1761 (at this period cloth of all cotton was prohibited), and 

 which must have been printed from copper plates of very unusual size. Apparently, 

 the pattern has been produced by two plates, each about 4 feet 6 inches by 3 feet. 

 The design is printed in madder red, and is thus described by Mr. Plant, the curator 

 of the museum. ' The printed piece of linen measures, in the full length of the 

 design, 6 feet 10 inches by 3 feet 2 inches in breadth. The composition in the design 

 is very bold and free in my opinion indicating very strongly the feelings of an artist 

 who had been educated in the Flemish school. The grouping of the trees, figures, 

 cattle, and fowls, is probably a direct copy from an engraving or sketch by Berghem, 

 whose paintings and engravings of such subjects are well known for their truth to 

 nature. His works bear date 1638 to 1680. Perhaps, to fill up the design, and form 

 a picturesque composition, the artist has borrowed from the French painters the classic 

 ruins which form the sides of the design ; it has had the effect of producing an 

 anachronism. The upper group represents a peasant seated upon the wall of a well 

 blowing a flute ; near him stands a woman with a distaff; a group of sheep, cow, and 

 a dog, in the foreground. The background shows a landscape, and on each side this 

 group are ruins, columns, and trees, reflected in the stream below. On a broken 

 bank, midway between the two groups, are two dogs chasing a stag. The lower 

 group, although there is no defined lino of separation between the groups, represents 

 a peacock, fowls, and chickens, upon a bank and ruins ; landscape and river scenery 

 beyond. Over, a hawk carrying a chicken, the sides occupied with a ruined portico, 

 tomb, and pedestal and vase, trees, and broken ground; and below are ducks 

 swimming, and water-plants on the bank. At the bottom of the piece are those parts 

 of the pattern which would print or fit on tho top part of the design. On the stone- 

 work of the well, in the upper group, is printed, ' E. JONES, 1761 ;' on the broken 

 stone-work, in the centre of the lower group, is printed, 'E. I. and Co., OLD 

 FOKD, 1761.'" Old Ford is situated at Bow, where the East London Water Works 

 now are, and whore there was a print-works at the time specified. This design 

 was no doubt printed for furniture hangings or tapestry, for which it is exceed- 

 ingly well adapted, and the work being altogether a remarkable production for the 

 period. 



CALIPERS ; CAXiIPER COMPASSES. Compasses with bowed legs, em- 

 ployed to measure the size of any round or conical body. In use, the two points are 

 opened to the required width, and so much wood, metal, or stone is turned off the 

 piece of work, that the two points exactly fit. 



CAIiK. To drive oakum, or untwisted old tarred rope into tho seams of any 

 vessel to prevent water from entering it or to stop a leak. After calking a ship, hot 

 tar is applied to protect tho oakum driven in. Calk is a term used amongst miners 

 for lime. 



