940 On the Salts, called Puckwah and Phool- Kharee. [No. 120. 



I. — Constituents of the Salts. 



The Puckwah is mostly produced during the manufacture of Salt- 

 petre, and sold openly in the bazars for culinary purposes. The Phool- 

 Kharee is manufactured from the efflorescence on the surface of vari- 

 ous earths, and sold, as well as other inferior sorts of Kharee, osten- 

 sibly for feeding cattle and manufacturing processes,* such as curing 

 hides and the like : the former sort, or Phool- Kharee, really for the 

 purpose of adulterating Government Salt. I mention these few facts 

 preliminarily, though well known to you, as I shall have occasion 



to recur to them again. 



Puckwah. 



The effects of reagents on the solution are as follows : — 



Shewing 



Tests. 

 Muriatic acid, 

 Nitrate Silver, 

 Acetate Barytes, .. 



Gold Leaf, 



N. M. Platina, 



Oxal. Ammonia, ... 

 Phosphate Soda & Ammonia, 



Acids. 

 No Carbonates, 

 Muriatic, (abundant,) 

 Sulphuric, 

 Nitric, (trace,) 



Bases. 



No Potass 



... Lime, (trace,) 

 ... Magnesia. 



Its constituents were found to be in 100 partSy taken in its usual 

 state, 



Insoluble matter, ... ... ... ... ... ... 1.20 



Extraneous Salts soluble in Alcohol, principally Muriates 



of Magnesia and Lime, ... .. ... ... 15.35 



Sulphate Soda, dr}', ... ... ... ... .. 2.45 



Muriate Soda, 75.00 



Traces Nitrates, Lime, Soda, and Magnesia, 0.50 



Hygrometric water and loss, ... ... ... ... 5.50 



100.00 



The essential parts of this, for revenue purposes are, in briefer 



terms, that the Puckwah contains 75 per cent, of culinary salt, and that 



* Report to the Board, says, there are three sorts, ** Phool-Kharee," or refined 

 Kharee ; *' Bhe'r-Kharee," or sheep's Kharee ; and " Choomar-Kharee," or 

 Currier's- Kharee. 



