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clay is never likely to supersede the excellent stoneware manufac- 

 tured at Futtygurh by Mr. Pyle, and for which the country stands 

 indebted to the enterprise of Dr. Julius Jeffryes. This improved 

 Kedgeree ware agrees in every way with the corresponding description 

 of coarse English crockery ; it is of' course unfit for chemical pur- 

 poses, and is only calculated for packing medicines, for holding water, 

 milk, ghee, oil, and the like ; and as it requires a little common salt for 

 the production of the glaze, somewhat more fuel, and a little more la- 

 bour, it is consequently somewhat more expensive than common Ked- 

 geree ware ; but being glazed it is capable of being perfectly cleans- 

 ed, and therefore may be repeatedly used when the Kedgeree ware 

 cannot. For this useful result we are indebted to the pains which Mr. 

 Dick, and other assistants in the H. Co's. Dispensary took to make the 

 Comars understand the instructions given in Dr. Ure's Chemical Dicti- 

 onary for glazing this description of ware. Although the vessels we 

 have thus succeeded in obtaining, answer all the purposes for which 

 earthen jars have heretofore been imported from Europe, for packing 

 medical stores, yet the ware is much inferior to what it might be made. 

 Indeed it is inferior to native earthenware, of which a sample has 

 been received from Capt. Bogle. It is inferior also to the Pegu ware. 

 Both of these last kinds of crockery are glazed ; and the glaze unaf- 

 fected by acids of any description, under any circumstances. With 

 the sample received from Capt. Bogle, we had no information. The 

 colour and appearance of the glaze, however, reminded us of the chil- 

 lums made at Moorshedabad, being of the same green colour. On 

 reference to Capt. Showers for information relative to the glazing of 

 the latter, that gentleman was good enough to furnish a sample of 

 the materials used, of which oxide of lead was one of the principal 

 ingredients, the green colour, which is not essential, being given by 

 the addition of copper filings. This and all lead glazes we have 

 tried are easily removed by acids. We trust however now that atten- 

 tion has been directed to the subject by Government, that inquiries will 

 be instituted into the native methods of glazing, and the materials 

 used for the purpose.* With regard to clays, one of the best we 



* We require very much to know something of the manufacture of Pegu earthen- 

 ware, which is of a coarse, cheap, substantial character, and is coated with a thick 

 black glaze, upon which acids have no effect whatever. 



