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and the images on many buildings are sculptured from it ; its price is 

 twelve rupees per yard. 



Two kinds of lime are in use in this district. The one made from 

 shells, (Specimen, No. 5,) collected on the coast about Manickpatum, 

 the other from honker, (No. 6,) found in numerous rivers in this dis- 

 trict, but principally in Debnuddee. The former is collected at an 

 expence of about three rupees and four annas per hundred maunds, 

 and its cost when burnt, is about fifty rupees the hundred maunds, 

 where the shells have to be carried a distance of eight or ten miles. 

 The honker is collected at the rate of two rupees, and its carriage 

 to Cuttack is six rupees for that quantity ; when burnt, the lime stands 

 at from seventeen to eighteen rupees the hundred maunds. 



The foregoing are the principal building materials in use in this 

 district, for bricks are little used, as the generality of the soil is un- 

 suited to their manufacture : — 



Specimens of Iron. 



Iron, of the three kinds sent is procurable in the bazar in any 

 quantity. The ore is found in the direction of the Mahanuddee river, 

 a considerable distance (about 150 miles) above Cuttack, and is 

 smelted there. The cost of No. 1, per Cuttack maund (150 sa.) is 

 five rupees and eight annas ; of No. 2, four rupees and four annas ; 

 and of No. 3, three rupees and twelve annas. 



Specimens of Timbers procurable in the Bazar, 



Timbers of the several kinds subjoined come to Cuttack in the 

 rainy season in large quantities ; being floated down in rafts as soon 

 as the Mahanuddee commences to rise. The average size of each, as 

 it arrives, is shewn, as also the price, but Timbers of considerably 

 longer scantling are to be procured in the forests whence these come. 



No. 1. — Koorom Timber, length ten feet, and diameter at each end 

 one foot three inches, cost of each one rupee and ten annas, received 

 from Killah Ungool, river Mahanuddee, distance from Cuttack 100 

 miles. 



No. 2. — Jack Timber, length eight feet, and diameter one foot, 

 cost of ditto five rupees ; ditto ditto ditto. 



No. 3. — Ghamber Timber, length ten feet, and diameter one foot, 

 cost of ditto four rupees ; ditto ditto ditto. 



