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(L.) orifice, protects the spinner, and admits of the 

 ofpmlery ghye application of a small chimney-board Avith a re- 

 Apparatus, gister (at the cost of six annas) in substitution of 

 very expensive double iron doors, which at the 

 best have but a bad hold of the bricks and are 

 soon shook by the fire-boys. 



4. These pottery ghyes, a pair of which can be 

 completely set in a few hours in the solid case of 

 moulded bricks, and used the next day, burn quite 

 clear, with great facility of getting up the required 

 heat, and are perfectly free from smoke (no reel 

 cloths are therefore required, which is a further 

 saving;) added to which, the great desideratum 

 of a more equable temperature is unquestionably 

 obtained throughout the several beats, say from 

 195 to 200 degrees, or from 10 to 12 below boil- 

 ing heat, while the consumption of fire-wood at 

 Rangamatty, for the whole day's spinning in each 

 ghye, is reduced seventy-five per cent. (viz. from 

 one maund to ten seers) or to one-fourth, and 

 being an expenditure of only one maund ten seers 

 to a seer of silk, instead of five. 



5. No part of this ghye structure coming in 

 contact with fire, water, and smoke, is susceptible 

 of injury by immediate use. This alone, in re- 

 newing ghyes, is a great advantage in a manufac- 

 ture, where time is so precious, and a fruitful bund 

 not admitting of delay. In proof, one hundred 

 and twenty pottery ghyes were brought into im- 

 mediate use at Rangamatty, built progressively 



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