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Through this is inserted a tube for two bellows. Each of the cuppels CHAPTER 
is now loaded with a small piece of iron, from one to one and a 
half Seer (9 T ’-oz. to 14 oz.) in weight, together with five small June is. 
pieces of the Tangayree wood (Cassia auriculat a). Three rows of 
the loaded cuppels are placed one above the other, so as to occupy 
the whole area of the furnace ; the room of one cuppel only being 
left empty, opposite to the muzzle of the bellows, in order to give 
access to the wind. They are covered with two bushels of charcoal, 
and burned for six hours ; a third bushel of charcoal having been 
added, as the former two were consumed. The pieces are then taken 
out, and hammered into small square bars, having been heated with 
charcoal of the Sujalu (Mimosa Tuggula , Buch. MSS.) 
The expence that attends the working of one of these iron forges Expence and 
is as follows : profits of the 
Fanams . * ron Gorges. 
To 4 men for collecting iton sand, at 10 Fanams each for 4 
months --------- IdO 
To 6 men to make charcoal, 4 for the smelting-house, and 2 
for the forge, during 8 months, at 8 Fanams monthly for 
each ---------- 384 
To 4 labourers at the smelting-house, for 8 months, at 10 
Fanams each -------- 320 
To 6 labourers in the forging-house, of whom 1 has 12 Fa- 
nams, the others 6 Fanams a month, for 8 months - - 3 36 
To the government paid yearly ; for making charcoal 60 Fa- 
nams, for ground rent for furnace 20 Fanams , for ditto for 
servants houses 20 Fanams - - - - - -100 
Fanams 1300 
The smelting-house burns thrice a day, for about eight months 
of 32 days each, without any allowance for holidays, and at each; 
time produces as much iron as, when forged, sells for from two to 
three Fanams * 
