Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c17.15
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c17.15
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c17.15
The best sort of whitening varnish is thus made. Take one gallon of *toddy*, a pint of butter-milk, and so much fine *chinam*, or lime, as shall be proper to colour it; add thereunto some of the *chinam* liquor before mentioned, wash it gently over therewith; and when it is quite dried in, do the same again. And a plaster thus made is more durable than some soft stone, and holds the weather better in *India*, than any of the bricks they make there.