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oil of turpentine, leaving a residuum of seven parts of resin. 

 The former, in addition to its demand as an article of medi- 

 cine, is extensively used by house painters ; the latter is indis- 

 pensable in the manufacture of hard yellow soap, which is 

 made by boiling 9.75 cwt. of tallow with 3.%5 cwt. of resin, 

 and 2 cwt. of soda with a due proportion of water. 



Thus we see how one thing depends upon another, and how 

 the manufacture of medicine on the spot (itself a great object), 

 would promote other results of still greater importance. 



The same forests, (equal we should say to any even in 

 Russia or America,) to which we should be thus directed 

 for turpentine, would also be found to supply tar. 



Four-fifths of the tar employed in Great Britain comes 

 from Russia, the remainder is imported equally from Sweden 

 and the United States. England is therefore dependent on 

 foreign nations for an article not only essential to, but charac- 

 teristic of her navy, while exhaustless supplies may be had in 

 her own Bengal provinces, from boundless pine forests, some 

 of which approach to within twenty miles of Sylhet. 



Up to within the last three years, Isinglass, the various 

 kinds of Gum Arabic, Myrrh, &c. together with glazed ear- 

 then pottery, were annually imported from Europe to supply 

 the public expenditure, and would probably have continued 

 to be so furnished for the next half century, had not the 

 Governor General in Council, as we understood, expressed a 

 determination, without reference to the quarters from which 

 such requisitions were made, to strike them out of the list 

 of imported supplies. It was then found not only to be unne- 

 cessary to import these articles from Europe, but that India 

 herself was the source from whence Europe and other parts 

 of the world had been supplied with some of them for centu- 

 ries past. 



Let this principle be generally acted upon, and the 

 same course be adopted with regard to Epsom Salts, and 

 we are equally prepared to say, coal Coke, wrought Iron, Tar, 



