The illustrated catalogue of the industrial department, Volume 3 |
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Pagina 88 - They are first exposed for some days in the sun to dry, and then pounded and boiled in water : the oil collects on the surface, and on cooling concretes into a solid cake. When purified from extraneous matter, the product is of a rather brittle quality ; of a pale yellowish hue...
Pagina xiii - Presidency is a rich magnetic oxide, very heavy and massive. The yield averages 60 per cent, of metallic iron. Much of the ore being a pure black magnetic oxide, would doubtless yield 73 per cent. The ore is, however, often mixed with quartz, which is a very refractory material in the blast furnace. Limestone, and in some places shell-lime, is employed as a flux ; and the charcoal of some kind of acacia is the fuel.
Pagina 73 - In Nepaul, the leathern attire is dispensed with, and the resin is collected on the skin of naked coolies.' In Persia the churrus is obtained by pressing the resinous plant on coarse cloths, and then scraping it from these and melting it in a pot with a little warm water. Mirza considers the churrus of Herat the most powerful of all the varieties of the drug.
Pagina 68 - ... inches in diameter ; the hole itself is the furnace, and has two apertures on opposite sides for feeding in the fuel, and for escape of the smoke. The fire is lit as soon as the juice is collected, and poured into the four pans, which are kept constantly supplied with fresh juice as the water evaporates, until the whole produce of the morning is boiled down to the required density. As the contents of each pan become sufficiently boiled, they are ladled out into other earthen pots or jars, of...
Pagina xiii - Dhenkanal, Pal Lahara, and Ungool, and indeed throughout the hilly country bordering the settled districts of this province on the north-west. The whole of the iron used for various purposes in this division is supplied from these local sources. In Sumbulpore, according to Dr.
Pagina 68 - Daily at sunrise, throughout the goor season, the industrious ryot may be seen climbing his trees, and collecting at a convenient spot beneath them the earthen pots containing the juice yielded during the past night. Under a rude shed, covered with the leaves of the date tree itself, and erected under the shade of the plantation, is prepared the boiling apparatus to serve for the goor season. It consists of a hole of about...
Pagina 80 - June by almost all the villages, not extensively, but principally for their own use. Its cultivation can be extended all over Oude. The oil is extracted by bruising the seed and then boiling it in water ; the oil is afterwards skimmed off. This is the only seed out of which the oil is extracted by boiling, as in this case it is found cheaper than the method used for other seeds, which is by pressure. The cost of the seed is one rupee per maund, and the price of the oil is from two to five seers per...
Pagina 68 - Some days previously the lower leaves of the crown are stripped off all round, and a few extra leaves from the side of the tree intended to be tapped. On the part thus denuded a triangular incision is made with a knife about an inch deep, so as to penetrate through the cortex and divide the sap vessels, each side of the triangle measuring about...
Pagina 68 - When not stunted in its growth by the extraction of its juice or sap for toddy drinking or for sugar, it is a very handsome tree, rising in Bengal from 30 to 40 feet in height, with a dense crown of leaves spreading in a hemispherical form from its summit. These leaves are from 10 to 15 feet long, and composed of numerous leaflets or pinnules about 18 inches long. The trunk is rough, from the adherence of the bases of the falling leaves ; this serves to distinguish it at a glance from the smooth-trunked...
Pagina 74 - The three ingredients of the betel nut, as commonly used, are the sliced nut, the leaf of the betel pepper in which the- nut is rolled, and chunam or powdered lime, which is smeared over the leaf. Prof. Johnston calculated that they are chewed by at least 50 millions of the human race...