No. XXIV.—Bengal coins.—Vol. i. p. 273.
4 kaurīs = 1 gunda. 20 gundas = 1 pun. 4 puns = 1 ānā. 4 ānās = 1 kāhan, 1280 kaurīs, or about one quarter of a rupī.
Kaurīs, small white glossy shells, are made use of for small payments in the bazār. They rise and fall according to the demand there is for them, and the quantity in the market. Accounts are kept in rupīs, with their subdivisions.
3 pie = 1 pāisa. 4 pāisa = 1 ānā. 16 ānās = 1 rupī. 16 rupīs = 1 gold muhr. 100,000 " = 1 lākh. 100 lākh = 1 karor, or 100,000,000 rupīs.
No. XXV.—Easy method of preserving small birds.—Vol. i. p. 289. Birds to the size of a pigeon may be preserved from putrefaction by an easy process, and by a method which will effectually guard them against the attacks of insects. Carefully remove the abdominal viscera at the vent, by means of a wire bent to a hook at one end; then introduce a small piece of the antiseptic paste, and afterwards as much clipped cotton or tow as may be thought sufficient, with some of the paste mixed with it; remove the eyes and fill the orbits with cotton imbued with the paste; draw out the tongue, which remove, and pass a wire from the mouth into the cavity of the cranium, merely to give the antiseptic access to the brain; bind a piece of thread round the rostrum, another piece round the body and wings; then hang it up by the legs, and pour in at the vent from half an ounce to two ounces, according to the size of the bird, of alcohol; let it be hung in an airy situation, and it will soon dry without any unpleasant smell. No. XXVI.—Antiseptic paste.
Antiseptic paste is made by mixing eight parts of finely-powdered white arsenic, four parts of Spanish soap, three parts of camphor pulverized in a mortar, with a few drops of alcohol, and one part of soft soap. If it become too dry add a little spirits of wine.
No. XXVII.—Arsenical soap.—Vol. i. p. 289.
Powdered arsenic one pound, white Marseilles soap one pound,
