Earthenware. 



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vials, imported and expended for the year 1840-41, to the exclusion 

 of all chemical glass vessels ; the value of the latter will, I think 

 upon enquiry, be found considerable.* I beg moreover to state, that 

 the presidency of Madras could easily be supplied with the glass- 

 ware from the port of Calcutta. 



From Mr. J. C. Pyle, to J. Thomason, Esq. Secretary to the 

 Government N. W. P. Dated Agra, 6th September, 1841. 



I beg to acknowledge the receipt, through Mr. Dodd, of Dr. W. 

 B. O'Shaughnessy's Pamphlet " On the improvement of Bengal 

 Pottery," and to state, that as Mr. Julius Jeffreys late associate in 

 business and his authorized agent, I deem it necessary, (Mr. Julius 

 Jeffreys being in England,) to notice certain parts of the same. 



Copied from Dr. W. B. O'Shaugh- 

 nessy's Pamphlet. 



2d Page. 2d. — " With reference 

 to Mr. Assistant Surgeon Jeffreys' 

 experiments, I am in possession 

 of no accurate information. The 

 great ingenuity and perseverance 

 for which that gentleman was dis- 

 tinguished, render it very probable 

 that he did succeed. Indeed the 

 chief difficulty in this and all such 

 trials, seems to be the general de- 

 pendence thereof on private re- 

 sources at the first starting." 



3d Page. 4th. — " A strict search 

 in the Museum of the Asiatic So- 

 ciety only led to the finding of one 



Replies. 



Never called for from me. — 

 I have been a resident of Fut- 

 tehghur for years past and car- 

 ried on Mr. J. Jeffreys' concerns 

 there, from the time of his de^ 

 parture until they were sold by 

 order of the Civil Court ; since 

 which they have remained in 

 my possession, with the excep- 

 tion of the nitre works. 



* The expenditure of these articles might be supposed to be large, although in reality it 

 is very small, and must continue to be so until the manufacture of sulphuric acid is once 

 entered upon on a large scale for the supply of public establishments. All other Chemical 

 Manufactures would follow, and with them a demand for glassware. — Ed. 



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