1829.] 
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the several details ; and above all, to form a body of native printers. For many months 
too I was compelled to perforin with my own hands much of the most laborious 
part of the work. I have been not unfrequently engaged in this way from 6o’elock 
in the morning till 1 o'clock the following morning, having scarcely time even for my 
meals, and for recreation or refreshment out of doors none whatever. Let it then 
be judged, to whom in reality belongs the credit of having introduced Lithography 
into India. The exertions I have described could not continue long ; they brought 
on a relapse of my fever, (which had very nearly proved fatal ;) yet not before I 
had sufficiently instructed others, so as at least to enable them to carry on the cur- 
rent business of the establishment during my illness. 
Sometime after this a Lithographic press was established at Bombay, chiefly on 
the statement of its advantages set forth by me in a prospectus which I forwarded 
to the Honourable Mountstuart Elphinstone, then Governor. It did not, however, as 
I had predicted in a private letter, succeed, owing to the inexperience of the gentle- 
man under whose superintendence it had been placed. The Bombay Government 
at length adopted the suggestion I had repeatedly urged, and sent round the superin- 
tendent here to acquire from me a competent knowledge of the details. He resided 
with me for some weeks, and on his return to Bombay I was gratified to learn that 
every thing was going on favourably, and that the establishment was in the fullest 
sense effective. His death, however, which occurred soon after, threw every thing 
into confusion, and the establishment has been in consequence abolished by order 
of the Court of Directors. 
My friends, observing the success and efficiency of the Government establishment 
under my direction, strongly urged the expediency of my forming one for the accom- 
modation of the public at large ; I accordingly wrote to England for the necessary 
apparatus, and on its arrival, I placed the whole under the direction of Mr. G. Wood, 
to whom I offered half the concern for the trouble of management. This is the 
Asiatic Lithographic Company's establishment, and it forms with the Government 
one, the only two effective establishments at this moment in India : of their capabili- 
ties 1 leave you, who have seen both, to judge; and I would ask you, with these facts 
before you, to whom you consider fairly due the credit of having introduced this 
art into the country. I have shown that even in point of date I was the first to Like 
any steps towards this important object ; while no one can doubt that I was not 
only the first to establish an effective press, but the only one. 
As to the claim set up in Paris in favour of M. Setnelet as being the first to apply 
Lithography to the printing of Oriental characters, it will, probably, be considered suffi- 
cient for me to state, that in August 1822, I exhibited before Dr. Lumsdaine and a 
crowd of natives, specimens of oriental Lithographic printing. Whole works in the 
Persian character were published at the Government press and at my private esta- 
blishments, long before the subject was even thought of in Paris. I may add as 
connected with this notice, as well as affording a good instance of the great utility 
of the Lithographic art, that I printed several copies of the declaration of war with 
Ava, at a time when the Avanese and Burmese character could not so much as be 
read in Calcutta. 
V Examination and Analysis of some Specimens of Iron Ores, from 
Burdwan. By H. Piddington, Esq. 
[From the Asiatic Researches, vol. xvii. part 1.] 
In the following analysis of iron ores from Burdwan, much care has been taken 
to ascertain correctly the presence and quantity of phosphate of iron and manganese, 
which two substances principally affect the qualities of the iron when smelted. The 
process was conducted in the humid way, and the separation of the manganese was 
obtained by Mr. Faraday’s method, digestion of the oxides in a solution of muriate of 
ammonia with sugar. 
Between Jamde and Sukkraj. No. 7* Sp. Gr. 3,144. 
Phenomena with the Blowpipe .—Acquires a metallic tarnish and a slaggy porous 
appearance, becomes magnetic : with borax or charcoal, fuses into a dark and dirty 
Believe me, &c. &c. 
I. N. Rind. 
