Hand-book of the Economic Products of the Punjab: With a Combined Index and Glossary of Technical Vernacular Words, 파트 14,1권Thomason Civil Engineering College Press, 1868 |
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433 페이지 - bricks,' as they are technically called, are then placed alternately with plates of sheet iron, in the ordinary screw or hydraulic press. The oil thus procured is received in clean tin pans, and water in the proportion of a pint to a gallon of oil being added, the whole is boiled until the water has evaporated ; the mucilage will be found to have subsided and encrusted the bottom of the pan, whilst the albumen, solidified by the heat, forms a white layer between the oil and the water. Great care...
475 페이지 - They possess, likewise, a kind of plant, which, instead of fruit, produces wool of a finer and better quality than that of sheep. Of this the Indians make their clothes.
403 페이지 - Three or four incisions are then made around the head of the root, and fresh ones are repeated at intervals of three or four days; the sap continuing to exude for a week or fortnight, according to the calibre of the root. In all cases as soon as the incisions are made, the root head is covered over with a thick bundle of dried herbs or loose stones, as a protection against the sun ; where this is not done the root withers in the first day, and little or no juice exudes. The quantity of asafcetida...
243 페이지 - May Durva, which rose from the water of life, which has a hundred roots and a hundred stems, efface a hundred of my sins, and prolong my existence on earth a hundred years...
403 페이지 - It is not an article of general consumption in Affghanistan, though often prescribed as a warm remedy for cold diseases by the native physicians, who also use it as a vermifuge. The fresh leaves of the plant, which have the same peculiar...
70 페이지 - As we passed beneath, we perceived windows and balconies at a great height crowded with women and children. The road beyond was cut out of solid salt, at the foot of cliffs of that mineral, in some places more than one hundred feet high above the river. The salt is hard, clear, and almost pure.
263 페이지 - Experience as well as analogy proves these seeds to be highly nourishing, and well deserving of a more extensive culture than is bestowed on them at present. The powder of the toasted seeds mixed with sugar is said to be a powerful diuretic, and serviceable in promoting the passage of sand or gravel.
181 페이지 - The sheep are driven from village to village with the wool on, and as the required quantity is cut from their backs, they are laden with the grain which is received in exchange, and which when the fleece is all disposed of, is carried into Chinese Tartary, and sold at a profitable rate.
403 페이지 - ... of the newly sprouting plant, is never adulterated, and sells at a much higher price than the other kinds. The price of the pure drug at Kandahar varies from four to seven Indian Rupees per '' man-i-tabriz" (about 3 Ibs.), and of the inferior kinds from one and a half to three and a half Indian rupees per
263 페이지 - The seeds, like those of other cucurbitaceous fruits, contain much farinaceous matter blended with a large portion of mild oil. The natives dry and grind them into a meal, which they employ as an article of diet ; they also express a mild oil from them, which they use in food and to burn in their lamps.