Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c25.27

c25.27

I wrote you a few lines in much haste by the *Raymond* which sailed from hence about a month ago. I had not yet had leisure to do much in the subject I proposed to myself, but I hope to be able to send you my first attempt in a short time hence. I can not, however, defer any longer making you acquainted with the most useful substances that the Indians employ in their arts. You will afterwards see these uses more particularly mentioned when I describe their methods of preparing lime; of fixing colours, or of producing them.