ON HEMP, 



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In heckling, as in scutching, the operation should be performed 

 in a spacious airy place, that the dust which it occasions may readily- 

 escape, without annoying the workmen. It should also be shel- 

 tered from wind, rain, and also the heat of the sun, when very 

 violent. 



Heckles are of various sizes, from very coarse to very fine, ac- 

 cording to the degree to which the Hemp is required to be brought. 

 They are simple and well known.* 



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The Doctor says : He does not know whether it be the same plant as the 

 Sunn of Bengal ; but the substance obtained from it is preferred to the Sunn of 

 Bengal for cotton ropes, where very great strength is necessary. It is far superior 

 to any thing of the kind he has seen in the Guzzerat. This, he thinks, may de- 

 pend more on the steeping of the plant and the preparation, than on any difference 

 in the vegetables that produce it. This observation is in all probability well- 

 founded ; since it will be seen, by the following extract of a Letter from Dr. Rox- 

 burgh to the Governor-general of Bengal entered on the Public Consultations, 

 12th February, 1801, that the substances, though apparently so different, are 

 from plants of the same description. 



" The same gentleman (Dr. Hunter) sent me seeds of the Salsette sort. 

 They have produced plants, now in blossom ; and from these I have ascertained 

 the identity of the species." 



* To the European Reader a description of these implements Avould be 

 superfluous ; but as this work is calculated for the information of persons 

 who are not, perhaps, very conversant in manufactures, and may be situated in 

 parts of India, where the means of information may not be readily obtained, I 

 shall give a full description of them. 



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