Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c22.8
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c22.8
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c22.8
The iron mines are to the northward, a mile from the village and half a mile from the hills; from whence they bring the ore, in baskets, to the furnaces that are close to the village. In former times, they seem to have found the ore nearer to it. The smelters do not, here, as at Letchemporam, themselves, work in the mines, nor do they burn their coals, but rather buy both articles, the former in baskets from the mines and the latter from labourers who bring them from the hills.