1841.] Roree in Khyrpoor. 893 



The blue is produced from Indigo, the yellow, the sulphur yellow, 

 from boiling the sulphur yellow in water impregnated with carbonate of 

 soda, in which a little turmeric has been mixed, the deepest yellow is 

 produced by dipping the same in potash ley. The reds are all produced 

 by lac dye dissolved by tamarind juice, with sulphate of alumina and 

 potash as a mordant. The depth of colour depends in 3 cases upon the 

 original black, brown, or white colour of the wool ; in the fourth on the 

 length of time the last description of wool was allowed to remain in the 

 dye. The greens are produced by immersion in Indigo, and then in polas 

 or turmeric, their degrees also depend on the original colour of the wool. 

 Bengal Indigo is always preferred to the home-manufactured by the worst- 

 ed dyers, cotton carpeting is also prepared in the same way as the woollen. 



The carpet weavers are described as gi ven up to indolence and dissipa- 

 tion, to both of which they appeared on a late occasion most anxious to 

 minister by endeavouring to establish a monopoly. There are at present 

 two hundred looms working ; at the -village of Hoosun-purti, five miles 

 from this, a good many looms are employed in weaving tusser or jungle 

 silk. As this letter is already too long 1 shall defer till another occasion 

 the description of this manufacture, and the rearing of the insects producing 

 the raw material. 1 cannot conclude this without mentioning an import 

 to this place, viz. English cotton yarn, of an orange colour, which comes 

 from Masulipatam to be used by the cotton weavers in the borders of saries, 

 punchees, &c. ; the reason they assign for its employment is the quick 

 fading of their native yellows; in all probability the English thread is 

 dyed with fustic w r ood (Morus Tinctoria) the most lasting of yellow dyes. 

 Be this as it may, its use bodes ought but good to the Indian manufac- 

 turer. 



Roree in Khyrpoor ; its Population and Manufactures* — By 

 Captain G.E. YVestmacott, Zlth Regiment, Bengal N. /. 



Roree or more correctly Lohuree, the ancient Lohurkot, is a town of 

 considerable antiquity, and said to have been founded with Bukur, about 

 the middle of the 7th century of the Hejira. It is built on a steep lime- 

 stone ridge that sweeps in a crescent form along the east bank of the 

 Indus. The strata of the rock is horizontal, and exhibits marks every- 

 where of the the action of the river, which must have risen formerly at 

 least fifty feet above its present level in the season of floods, and washed 

 the foundation of the houses. In the sandy bays, creeks, and hollows aban- 



