1841.] On the Salts, called Puckwah and Phool-Kharee. 955 



ingly mistrust the information of any manufacturer, European or 

 Native, on this subject, as see Par. 53, where it is said that the export 

 of the Puckwah is kept secret as being illegal ; see again p. 57. As 

 there must be from 8 to 10 per cent, of water and insoluble matters 

 in the Puckwah ; this seems for a chemist a very rough note indeed. 

 Next, what is meant by good Puckwah. Puckwah which sells well 

 I suppose? for they could, I think, separate most of the 10 per cent, 

 of Nitre and the Kharee with ease ? I presume this mixture is that 

 which best disguises the taste of the factitious Salt, or else that as 

 mentioned farther, the factory servants had an interest in producing 

 more Puckwah ? Of the chemical constituents of the Kharee, the re- 

 port says nothing. 



Sections II. and III. have nothing in which we can compare, being 



wholly new. 



Section IV. — Estimate of the quantity of Puckwah produced annually. 

 First from the Saltpetre manufacture in all its stages. 

 Report, " Par. 38. Very little I deduce that the produce is to 



Puckwah produced in the refining 

 of Saltpetre, but afterwards, Par. 47, 

 6 per cent, occurs even with Euro- 

 pean superintendence, and the ac- 

 tual produce of it should be there- 

 fore reckoned from the Dooah. Par. 

 43. European factories have 6 to 8 

 per cent. Puckwah on their pro- 

 duce of refined Saltpetre." 



" In a small factory Puckwah 



be really calculated from the Dooah 

 and in its preparation. That on 

 the whole, with every allowance 

 and deduction, it will not be exces- 

 sive to say, that, for every maund 

 of refined Saltpetre in the mar- 

 ket, 25 per cent, or 10 seers may 

 be allowed as the average pro- 

 duction of Puckwah in making it. 

 Thence it would appear, that it 



amounts to 10 per cent, on the really must at least reach to this 



refined Saltpetre." amount. 



" Par. 44. Four factories near Pat- 



na give 24, 30, 50, and 5Q per 



cent. Puckwah!" 



" Par. 45. Nooneahs allow that 



their produce amounts to about 



6 F 



