Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c23.s5.t9.3

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It is necessary to add that the bar iron mentioned above, is not⁹ common bar iron—but highly wrought bars, for use in a suspension bridge; the hardness alluded to in the three last numbers, was evidently occasioned by the metal ‘still retaining a portion of carbon’, and it is worthy of remark that this quality was confined to those specimens, the ore of which had been roasted.¹⁰