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List o f some of the Articles which have been made at the Futtegurh 

 Flintware Manufactory. 



Some thousands of dozens of soda water bottles, vitreous ware, 

 jars from 8 lb. downwards, wide and narrow-mouthed ; mortars and 

 pestles, large and small evaporating dishes ; funnels of sizes, syp- 

 hons, water and gas pipes, gaily pots of sizes, common and with 

 covers, tea pots, butter pots, cups and saucers, jugs and mugs, 

 milk and slop bowls, inkstands double and single, hookah bottoms, 

 candlesticks, flower-holders, chamber utensils ; also fire bricks, 

 fire tiles, glass-house pots, crucibles of sizes, capable of bearing 

 the most intense heat, and glazed tiles for paving 6 and 8 inch; 

 these latter were intended for forming the floor of a sulphuric acid 

 chamber laid down with a composition of lac and sand, but we ulti- 

 mately adopted lead ; two of these tiles have lately been sent down 

 through Major Lumsden, C. B., to Colonel Garstin, Superintending 

 Engineer, Lower Provinces. 



Futtergurh, 26th March, 1842. W. PYLE. 



Indian Turpentine. 



We recently received specimens of the resin of Pinus longifolia 

 from Major Carter, as well as from Mr. H. Inglis, Assistant to the 

 Political Agent at Cherra-Ponji. These have been found to yield 

 in the Laboratory of the East India Company's Dispensary 75 per 

 cent, of rosin and ten per cent, of rectified oil of turpentine. 

 This rosin and turpentine are both articles of Materia Medica, 

 the one sold at 10 shillings per cwt. and the other at 80 shillings 

 in the English market, and are exported to India ; where however, 

 whole provinces are overgrown with various species of pines, from 

 which, as the foregoing results show, extensive supplies of these 

 articles might be furnished. All that is necessary in order to obtain 

 rectified oil of turpentine and rosin is a copper still ; the oil distils 

 over, and the rosin remains behind in the still. The oil is rectified 

 by redistillation, a little water being placed with it in the still, the pure 



