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The pottery scheme is, however, susceptible of (L.) 

 being easily put to any comparative test by sci- ofp^Jjl^ry gh", 

 entific persons, and it certainly is well worth Apparatus, 

 while ; for even the Pykars (who are not easy to 

 please) avow that " silk manufactured with the 

 new apparatus is of improved colour and softness, 

 yielding also a fractional reduction in the average 

 of khwans of cocoons per seer." 



No. 4. 



Extract Letter from the bengal Government to 

 the Board of Trade, dated 21th September 1832. 



I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of ^ ^jo^r^'de 

 your two letters, dated the 20th and 27th ultimo, 27 Sept. 1832.' 

 on the subject of the experimental ghyes of diffe- 

 rent constructions erected at Howrah, and the 

 result of various experiments made under the 

 Board's orders, to ascertain the merits of each 

 kind respectively. 



2. From the general result of these experi- 

 ments, it appears that the saving of fuel is about 

 equal, or seventy per cent, upon the old ghyes, at 

 each of the three improved basins, viz, Mn 

 Becher's quadruple, the late Captain Somerville's 

 improved native ghyes, and Mr. C. Shakespear's 

 pottery ghyes. But the last are considered by 



the 



