134 • A JOURNEY FROM MADRAS THROUGH 
CHAPTER receives no higher polish. When a marble polish is to be given, it 
1S c ^ one h Y rubbing the stone with cakes made of the adamantine 
May 20, Ac. spar, reduced to powder, and united with melted lac. The adaman- 
tine spar is here called Curungada Cullu } and is said to be found in 
lumps, which are immersed in rocks of a black stone, near Naga- 
mtmgula. It must be observed, however, that at Nagamangula the 
people denied their having any such stone. 
Near Seringapatam the Congcar, or limestone nodules, called 
there Sana Cullu, are very common, and are found of four different 
qualities, which, however, are generally intermixed in the same 
field. These four varieties, therefore, although they produce lime of 
different degrees of whiteness, and are distinguishable by the work- 
men, have the same origin. They have, no doubt, been deposited 
by water; and I have been told, by good authority in Bengal, that 
a field, after having been perfectly freed of these nodules, will in a 
few years be again filled with them. Whence then is this calcari- 
ous matter derived ? There are here no rocks of limestone, or mar- 
ble, from which it could have been washed. The whole calcarious 
matter to be found in Mysore is a Tufa. The quicklime is prepared 
by a class of people called Uparu, who are in general poor, and 
must receive advances to enable them to hire labourers. A labour- 
ing man at this work earns daily J of a Fanam, almost a sixpence; 
and women, who perform much of the labour, get one third of that 
sum. They are allowed to collect the nodules, which are generally 
found by the sides of rivulets, and in waste ground, without pay- 
ing any thing to the public ; but in the late government they were 
frequently compelled to supply the Sultan at a low rate. The lime 
is always burned with charcoal. The dark-coloured quicklime, for 
building, costs, at Seringapatam, six Fanams a Canclaca , or nearly five 
pence a bushel ; finer lime, for white-washing, costs ten Fanams , or 
a little more than eight pence a bushel ; and the finest, that is used 
for chewing with betel, costs twenty Fanams a Candaca, or one 
shilling and four pence half-penny a bushel. 
