MYSORE, CAN AHA, AND MALAB/iR. 
a Maundy or a little more than twelve pounds two ounces* By this 
it would appear, that the ore produces no more than about 31™ per 
cent,; and the iron so produced, although malleable at first, m e> 
tremely impure* Ttppco took it from the workmen at 3 Fanams a 
Maundf or 9s. -3$d« a hundred weight. He gave them, however, 
great. employment ; as he made his shot of this iron, by hammering ; 
for the fusion is never so complete as to allow it to be ca i 
moulds*. 
in order to render this iron more pure, and to tT A fen being 
wrought up into the implements of husbandry, it k taken to. an- 
other. .house, ..and repeatedly -forged. Tip;, 30, Si, 22 , and 25, aro 
rude sketches of the apparatus necessary for this purpose. There 
are . here also two bellows ( 1 ), hut they are smaller than those in the 
smelting-house y and, the mound ( 2 ) on which they are supported 
being low, a pit (3), -is formed behind 'it,- in which the labourers 
stand • to reduce them to the proper leve l. The mvuzles of the hel 
lows (4) are inserted into an earthen tube (5), .which convoys. the 
air into the furnace through o,,c of its- side- walls (6) These' walls 
are two masses of "clay* one cubit long, ter 1 aches high, aiul low 
inches thick ; and arc placed on the boor, parallel to each o frier. ax 
the distance of a foot. Or them is laid a flat -comm ( 7 ) made • f 
■ baked' clay, and about an inch and a half m thickness. In its hinder 
part m an oblong opening ( 8 ).; sufficient to admit ore of the blocks- 
of iron. The fore part of the foruaee is secured on the top by a 
. -mould nig (23) of- clay, 'which is somewhat ornament ech Before it 
is pkced, a stone ( 21 ) a cobh. long, twelve inches broad., ait! surer- 
thigh, Except what is shut up by if os. stone, all fo : fere part of 
the furnace w open. T;he ; . ; |imd^* part ( i 0 ) is enf welyvio g no with 
■ ■ p j v tfeept a. si . : wbi ■ 1 . uid vitrified 
sec i d st (I J 
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CT AFTER 
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June 13. . 
Iron wrge. 
