Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c20.65
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c20.65
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c20.65
The second is called Rashee Pasheemah Koor; ground of an equal or middling sort. To determine its quality, they dig a hole as before; but on returning the earth into the hole it will be exactly filled, and appear level with the rest of the field. This earth will also stick to the fingers, but not so adhesively as the first. It has therefore the epithet Rashee, which implies a mixture of earth and sand, which are united with the rich clay of the former soil.