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



25 per cent, on their crude Nitre, 

 [^Abee or Dooah.^^'] 



*' Those of Behar and Shaha- That there are in various parts 

 bad may even obtain as much Salt Salt works, of which we have no 

 as Saltpetre." notice ; but I allow their produce 



" Par. 49. And in northern as a make-weight. 

 Tirhoot, the name of Saltpetre is but 

 a cloak for the making of Salt." 



V. — Puckwah produced with the Kharee, and the quantity of Kharee. 



Report says, *' Par. 61. The I deduce that it certainly must 



Phool-Kharee contains Puckwah." be produced with it, to the extent 



** Par. 71. Puckwah made in N. of at least 25,000 maunds. 



E. Tirhoot." From Saltpetre and other data, 



"Quantity 1,83,000 maunds, but 1,00,000 maunds Phool-Kharee 



is now said to be [from the tax] will not be excessive, or 3 lacs of 



3,23,680 maunds, and 50,000 in all sorts. 

 Sarun of all sorts— Total 3,73,680 

 maunds." 



Section VI. and VII. — Little or nothing in common with the Report. 



To conclude. The first object of my paper was to shew, that the 

 adulteration might not only in the hands of a chemist be detected by 

 very simple means, but that it might be measured. This measure- 

 ment I see removes another of the difficulties before the Board, which 

 is the detection of the adulteration of good Salt by Puckwah. 



From the statement of the report to the Board, it seems that 

 Puckwah also contains 21 per cent, of Kharee or Sulphates. In this 

 case, the Puckwah is in fact but a mixture of Kharee and Puckwah ; 

 but taking our sample as a very pure one, a really good Puckwah, we 

 see it contains 2J per cent. Kharee. Now, say the Government 

 allows for chance impurities 4 per cent, of Sulphate, we may fairly 

 take the medium between the 21 per cent, mentioned above, and our 

 very pure sort as an average sort. This will be about 10 per cent, 

 which is an amount distinct enough to be shewn to the clumsiest hand 



