158 Miscellaneous. (Marcu, 
No. 14. Quartz and micaceous schist, from the S. side of a small island, in Lat. 
11° 47’ N. It is covered with trees of a great variety of foliage, and producing many 
berries it attracts numberless pigeons of abeautiful cream colour, with wings and tails 
tipped with black ; and from this circumstance it has been called Pigeon Island. 
No. 15. Granite, from a small island on the south-eastern side of Sir Edward 
Owen’s Island, in 11° 11' N. This island, when I visited it, was covered with “ Tu- 
cans.” 
Nos. 16 and 17. Limestone and decomposing Granite, from two small islets 
distant from each other § a mile, in Lat. 11° 49’ N. 
No. 18. Micaceous schist, from rocks that cover and uncover with the tide, 
near to the last. 
No. 19. Micaceous schist, from a smallisland, in Lat. 11° 50’ N. and has only one 
or two fathoms on its summit, which gives it the appearance of a cap and feather. 
No. 20. From an island in 11° 53’ N. It is formed by two hills connected by a 
narrow sandy ridge, so that, at a distance, it appears like two small islands. The 
specimen is taken from the south-west point of the western hill, the summit of 
which has an even and flatish appearance. 
No. 21. Fine grained granite, from rocks on the western side of Christmas Is- 
land, in 12° 0’ N. 
No. 22. Quartz, from a small island, in Lat. 12° 4’ N. (Hospital Island.) 
No. 23. Quartz, from the north-east point of an island to the westward of it. 
No. 24. Decomposed granite, from a small island, in Lat. 12° 9’ N, 
3.—Inp1an ARTS AND MANUFACTURES. 
Mode of dyeing Kharwa Cloth, practised in Bundelkhand. Translated from a 
Persian account. By Babi Hari Mohun Sén. 
To dye—say one bale of cloth, consisting of fifty-two pieces, the first step to be 
taken is to wash them white in water. Thirteen seers of oil of castor, three seers 
of impure soda (khak-ij-zamtn-shér, efflorescence on saline earth), and fifteen seers 
of clear water, must then be mixed together, and the cloths dipped and drenched 
in the solution twice a day for four days continually. At the expiration of 
that time, the same operation is to be renewed fora period of seven days, 
soaking the same in the liquor, and reducing the operation to once a day. But 
care should be taken to put into it a little saline earth every day during the 
process. After this, the whole bale of cloths must be rewashed in clear water, 
and then steeped over again in another liquid composed of water and three seers 
of Halelah (Terminalia Chebula), and afterwards dried. A similarcold solution of 
water and three seers of alum is then to be prepared, in which the stuffs are again 
to be steeped, and afterwards well dried. After all these operations are duly con- 
ducted, a caldron or large vessel is to be filled with a sufficient quantity of water, 
in which are to be mixed one maund and ten seers of A] (Morinda Tinctoria), a dye- 
wood, and five seers of Dhdéwa (another wood). The formershould be well dis- 
solved previously to the cloths being submitted to the process of dyeing. After 
they have taken a deep dye in this liquor, they should be taken out of the vessel, 
and then washed with soap and water. Then a solution of eight seers of gum 
is to be made, and the stuffs immersed and washed in it for the last time. They 
are afterwards to be folded piece by piece, and rubbed and scoured with a little gum 
over their surface, and then beaten in order to make them smooth and compressed. 
