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sixteen inches in diameter, on which the clay is thrown for working 

 into shape, and fr om the sides of which eight spokes proceed to the 

 outer rim, whilst below there is a hole which receives the spindle it 

 turns on ; this spindle being the point of a bullock's horn, let into a 

 round stone. The entire diameter of the wheel is three feet, and its 

 breadth three inches. The frame work is made of baubul wood, the 

 bulk of the outer rim being composed of clay, goat's hair, and horse 

 dung, altogether not weighing above forty seers. 



The potter accurately guessing the quantity of clay required for 

 his purpose detaches it from the mass, and casts it on the centre of the 

 wheel, now in rapid motion ; when dipping his hands in water, he 

 works the lump up into a pyramidal form, and then down into a flat 

 shape, repeating this until he has deprived the mass of any air bub- 

 bles it may contain- In this operation, the fingers are placed in- 

 side with the thumbs outside the lump of clay, a piece of wet rag 

 smooths the lips of the vessel and a thin string drawn between the 

 mould and the disc, separates it from the wheel. The vessel thus 

 shaped, is now removed to a shady place to permit its drying to a 

 particular point, when it is further prepared by being beaten into its 

 proper form, by a flat wooden mallet, it possessing in this stage pecu- 

 liar tenacity, admits of this hammering into shape, which is effected 

 by placing a convex stone on its inner side, on which the hammering 

 acts. Whilst this process is going on, the potter is^continually sprink- 

 ling the beaten parts with fine rice-straw ashes, when sufficiently 

 beaten into form it is again put by for two days under shelter, and 

 covered with damp sand, after which it is subjected to a further ham- 

 mering, and then burnishing the surface, the potter places it as be- 

 fore in a shady covered place to dry, and in a fortnight it is fit for 

 burning. These pots bake black, are very brittle, breaking on the 

 least violent usage, but their small price renders this of less conse- 

 quence, a large sized mutka costing but one pice ; their porous na- 

 ture keeps water contained in them very cool. 



sale Manufacture. 

 There is a considerable trade carried on at Byzapoor in the manu- 

 facture of silk and mixed goods called mushroo ; employing one hun- 

 dred and twenty-five looms in the process, and ten houses for silk 

 throwing. Besides these loom^, there are fifty also for making cotton 

 cloths. 



