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ta^es to be gained by the general introduction of (L.) 

 their improvements. They were also instructed ^^rdofTrrdc. 

 to send native bricklayers to Howrah, to super- -^"s- 

 intend the erection of the works proposed by 

 them. 



Mr. Becher intimated, that he had introduced 

 some recent alterations and improvements in his 

 quad basins since he originally recommended their 

 erection at Rungpore, where indeed they have in 

 a great measure failed ; and as the trial at Howrah 

 was to determine the comparative merits of their 

 several ghyes and basins, and would probably lead 

 to the introduction of one or other of them at all 

 the Company's factories, we were desirous that the 

 fullest opportunity should be afforded for each 

 party to display the merits of his own invention, 

 and accordingly requested Messrs. Becher and 

 Shakespear, when on leave at the Presidency, to 

 superintend in person the erection of their quads 

 and pottery ghyes. Mr. Richardson not being 

 able to procure a person properly qualified to erect 

 a Somerville furnace, Lieut. Mallock, of the Mili^ 

 tary Board, at our request undertook to do this, 

 after the plan recorded in that office. 



We thus had under our own immediate inspec- 

 tion the three descriptions of basins and ghyes, 

 the comparative merits of which alone admitted 

 of any dispute (for Captain Sage's plan had been 

 some time before set aside by the Board, as being 

 too expensive for general adoption and otherwise 



objectionable,) 



