a strong fortress of Hindustan, situated on a hill about six miles west-north-west from Hyderabad, strongly defended both by nature and art, but being situated on a rock, is excessively hot and unhealthy. The principal inhabitants and bankers of Hyderabad are permitted to reside in this fort, to which they retire with their property on any alarm. It was once the capital of an extensive kingdom of native Hindu princes, and afterwards a principal division of the Bhamence sovereignty, on the fall Shell Gold is that used by those employed in gilding and Shell Gold illuminating, and with which gold letters are written. It is made by grinding gold leaves, or gold-beaters' fragments, with a little honey, and afterwards separating the honey from the powdered gold by means of water. When the honey is washed away, the gold may be put on paper or kept in shells. When it is used it is commonly diluted with gum-water or soap-suds. The German gold powder, prepared in this manner from the Dutch gold leaf, is generally used; and when it is well scoured with varnish, it answers the end in jannpers' gilding as well as the genuine.

Gold Size, for burnished gilding, is prepared of one pound and a half of tobacco-pipe clay, half an ounce of red chalk, a quarter of an ounce of black lead, forty drops of sweet oil, and three drams of pure tallow. Grind the clay, chalk, and black lead, separately, very fine, in water; then mix them together, add the oil and tallow; and then grind the mixture to a due consistence.