1856.] 



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which at the rate of 1 anna 4 pie per diem is, . . . Ks. 38 13 4 

 1000 maunds of ore-bearing clay produce 100 maunds 

 of ore, which smelted with 200 maunds of charcoal 

 produce 266 pieces of pig-iron, averaging 4 seers in 

 weight, which, sold at 3 annas each, fetch, 49 14 



Leaving a balance of, - . . . „ 11 8 



JV. B. — Presuming the foregoing table to be correct, it would 

 appear that the out-turn of pig-iron from the ore is about 25 per 

 cent. ; and if, as I am told, 1 piece of pig iron of 4 seers weight is 

 the produce of a basketful or 15 seers of the Teeroogong hill ore, 

 the out-turn is much the same ; an analysis of either of these, 

 however, would afford the best test of their respective qualities. 



The following is a table shewing the progress of the works 

 carried on formerly in the fabrication of fire-arms and cannon, 

 extracted, I believe, from old Assamese Government records : 



Table No. 2. 



1 

 1 

 1 

 1 



1 

 1 

 2 

 4 

 20 

 50 



Small hatnul, or hand-gun,. ... 



Large ditto, , 



Pahlunga, . 



Ganthea Yomoonee, ..... ^ 



Meeta Hoolang, . 



Baghmoorali (or tiger-headed mouth), 



Large cannon, 



Larger ditto, , 



Still larger, 



Larger ditto, 



4 



2 



2 



1 



1 



1 



1 



1 



1* 



It 



* Four of this description made. 



t Only one of -this description made, which is the great gun at Rungpore. 



Note. — Cannon and fire-arms continued to be manufactured from the year 1427 

 A. S. 1505 A. D. during the reign of Swarga Narain to the year 1636 A. S. 

 1716 A. D. in the reign of Rajah Ruddra Singh. In the reign of Goureenath 

 Singh that Rajan prohibited the manufacture of the old match-lock and introduced 

 the making of muskets. 



