254 ON THE MANUFACTURE OF ROSE-WATER AND UTUR. 
80 to 90 rupees the tolah ; the year before it might have been 
purchased for 50 rupees. Native stills are let out at so much 
per day or week, and it frequently occurs that the residents 
prepare some Rose-water for their own use as a present to 
their friends, to secure their being provided with that which 
is the best. The natives never remove the calices of the 
Rose flowers, but place the whole in the still as it comes from 
the gardens. 
The best plan appears to me to have this removed, as by 
this means the Rose-water may be preserved a longer time, 
and is not spoiled by the acid smell occasionally met with in 
the native Rose-water. It is usual to calculate 100 bottles to 
one lac of Roses. The Rose'-water should always be twice 
distilled ; over ten thousand Roses, water may be put to allow 
of sixteen or twenty bottles coming out ; the following day 
these twenty bottles are placed over eight thousand more 
Roses, and about eighteen bottles of Rose-water are distilled. 
This may be considered the best to be met with. The Attar 
is so much lighter than the Rose-water, that previous to use 
it is better to expose the Rose-water to the sun for a few days 
to allow of its being well mixed, and Rose-water that has 
been kept six months is always better than that which has re- 
cently been made. 
At the commencement of the Rose season, people from all 
parts come to make their purchases, and very large quanti- 
ties are prepared and sold. There are about thirty-six places 
in the city of Ghazeepore where Rose-water is distilled. These 
people generally put a large quantity of sandal oil into the 
receiver, the oil is afterwards carefully removed and sold as 
Sandal Attar, and the water put into carboys and disposed of 
as Rose-water. At the time of sale a few drops of sandal oil 
are placed on the neck of the carboy to give it a fresh scent, 
and to many of the natives it appears perfectly immaterial 
whether the scent arises solely from the sandal oil or from 
the Roses ; large quantities of sandal oil are every year 
brought up from the South and expended in this way. 
The chief use the natives appear to make of the Rose-water 
