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appearance, and a little genuine added, 

 makes it smell nearly as strong. Some 

 have only a portion of the musk taken out, 

 and its place thus supplied ; and others have 

 all the musk left in, but something added 

 to increase the weight. Even in the hills 

 where it is produced, so little do the 

 generahty of the people know of musk, that 

 I have often seen the Puharries about 

 Gangoutrie, sell to the pilgrims, to men 

 from the lower hills, and even to their own 

 neighbours, small portions of what they 

 called musk, but what was merely some 

 substance resembling it, with a httle genuine 

 musk scattered over it. Of this stuff they 

 would sell about a quarter of a tolah 

 for a rupee, or about twenty shillings an 

 ounce. 



The substances commonly used for adulte- 

 ration or to fill the counterfeit pods are, 

 blood boiled, or baked on the fire, then 

 dried, beaten to powder, kneaded into a 

 paste, and made into grains and coarse 

 powder to resemble genuine musk ; a piece 



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