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was employed in remote antiquity, as in the present 
day by Asiatic females for painting the eyebrows and 
eyelids. It is the stimmi and stibium of the ancients, 
itmud and ismud of the Arabs, commonly known in India 
by the name soorma. With it, I believe, is frequently 
confounded the sulphuret of lead, which, in Northern 
India, is called soormee (ee is the feminine termination in 
Hindee) and used as a substitute for the former : a mistake, 
not of recent occurrence only, as Sprengel says, " Distin- 
guit vero Plinius marem a femina.'" The sulphuret of 
antimony is produced in abundance in the island of Borneo; 
also, at Moulmein and in Pegu, in Persia, and in Caubul. 
The ores of Zinc, calamine and blende, are produced in 
the province of Yunan in China, and it is said also in the 
Peninsula of India, and in Nepal. Until very recent times, 
zinc or spelter, was extensively imported from China into 
India. The name tutenague, by which Chinese zinc was 
known in commerce, is evidently derived from the Tamul, 
tatanagum. The common name, tutty, of impure oxide 
of zinc, is apparently also of eastern origin ; as tiitia 
(Tamul tootum) is in common use in India and Persia, 
being applied to an ore of zinc imported from the latter. 
The sulphate of zinc is called suffed (white) tutia ; sul- 
phate of copper, neela (blue) tutia ; and sulphate of iron, 
hura (green) tutia; so, in Avicenna, different kinds are 
described under this name, which occurs also in Geber. 
Of Arsenic, the Hindoos have been long acquainted with 
the white oxide, and the sulphurets. Of these, the first, or 
arsenious acid, called sanchya in Sanscrit, with Tamul, 
Hindee, and Malayan names, has been known in India 
from high antiquity, and imported from China ; but it is 
probable, that it was also obtained artificially by the 
Hindoos. Realgar, or the red sulphuret, their mansil 
(Sans, manahsila), the Sandaracha of the ancients, is a 
