Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Part II (New Series) July 1841

I.—Report to the Secretary of the Board of Customs Salt and Opium on the Salts called Puckwah and Phool Kharee with a process for detecting the adulteration of Government Salt estimates of the quantities of both Salts annually produced and of the amount of loss which the Revenue may sutain through the production of these two articles. [...] It is during the progress of the worm from the egg to the formation of the cocoon that every energy of the tusser-breeder is called into action for the preservation of his charged Every animal footed winged and creeping is said to be the enemy of the tusser grub. [...] The winding of the silk is accomplished by boiling the cocoons separating the floss of which no use is made and twisting eight or ten filatures from as many cocoons on the middle of the thigh with the left hand to be wound on the instrument of which a muster is sent : this instrument the middle bar of the wood is held lightly in the hand of the workman and made to move in a semicircle. [...] The teak (Tectongrandis) grows to a large size in the country to the north'of Chinnore about eighty miles distant ; chiefly in the territory of the Raja of Nag pore along the banks of the streams tributary to the Pundeelah. [...] Height of the River's Banks.—Assuming for the purpose of explnation that the source and the embochure of the Indus are upon the same level the river in its long course may be said to have two maxima of rise.