Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c17.14

c17.14

Note, when your first coat of plastering is laid on, let it be well rubbed on with a hardening trowel, or with a smooth brick, and strewed with a gritty sand, moistened, as occasion requires, with water, or the before mentioned liquor, and then well hardened on again; which, when half dry, take the last mentioned composition for your fine plastering, and when it is almost dry, lay on your whitening varnish; but if your work should be quite dry, then your *chinam* liquor must be washed over the work with a brush.