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Art. XI.—Report on the Iron of Kattywar, its Comparative Value with British Metal, the Mines, and Mode of Smelting the Ore

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2011

Legrand Jacob
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Iron ore is found chiefly in the north-west quarter of the Peninsula. The result of my inquiries gives the number of six foundries working at one time, during the fair season, throughout the province, and two or three more occasionally. The extent to which the metal is manufactured will be given in the body of this Report. I have visited only two foundries, those at Ranawao and Ranpoor in the Ranas and Jam's Talookas respectively; but I understand a description of one applies alike to all, their construction being rude and simple.

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 7 , Issue 13 , January 1843 , pp. 98 - 104
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1843

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page 98 note 1 Specimens from all three mines have been forwarded to the Secretary, Geographical Society, Bombay.

page 100 note 1 Averaging about twenty-six Bombay rupees to the seer, and forty seers to the mun. A Ranpoor mun is equivalent to Bombay seer, rupees 26–263.

page 101 note 1 Ranpoor. The information elsewhere obtained was not full enough to rest on, but it strengthens the Ranpoor statement.

page 101 note 2 This sum, it seems scarcely necessary to say, is equal to from near eight to ten annas, local currency, and may be roughly estimated at the average value of a shilling.

page 102 note 1 About 150,000 tons yearly.

The table annexed at once shows the vast disparity of European and native skill, the augmentation of power afforded by improvements in science of late years, and the increasing magnitude of the British manufacture. It is calculated from tables published in Mc Culloch's Dictionary of Commerce.

page 106 note 2 Captain Jervis' work.