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drabad, and bears a high price, it is never brought thither 
from Bifnagur ; that fome of what is found in the Bazars is 
brought from the Atcour pafs in Canoul, and fome from 
Emnabad at the diftance of about eighty miles to the N.W. ; 
but that the greateft part comes from Mafulipatam. 
“ That there are two forts fold in the Bazars ; one at the 
rate of a rupee a dram; the other, of inferior quality, at 
half the price ; but that this is faid to be chiefly compofed 
of burnt teeth and bones. 
“ That he was informed by a Perfee, who had been in 
Bengal, that the Tabafheer was produced in great quantities 
at Sylhet, where it fold by the pound from one rupee to one 
“ and a half, and formed a confiderable article of trade from. 
“ Bengal to Perfia and Arabia.” 
N° 3. is a fpecimen of the prime fort from Hydrabad. It 
differs materially from the others, not only in its fuperior 
whitenefs, and the being lefs mixed with impure particles; 
but in the being much harder than the pureft particles of my 
fpecimens, much heavier, and hardly in any degree friable to 
the finger. 
Submitting the fpecimens to examination, I refrain from 
experiments on them which may more fuccefsfully be made in 
England, and (hall proceed to offer a few obfervations on the 
juice of the recent bamboo fuppofed to form the Tabafheer. 
Rumphius remarks in Amboina, “ Juniores arundines ple- 
“ rumque in inferioribus fuis nodis femi-repletae utcunque funt 
46 lympida aqua potabili, quae hifce in terris fenfim evanefcit, 
“ ' m vero regionibus exficcatur in fubftantiam albam et 
44 calceam, quae Tabaxir vocatur.” 
Garzius gives an account fomewhat different from this. I 
am obliged to cite from an Italian tranflation. “ Fra tutti 
46 gli 
