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 go by the name of “ Bombay boxes," They are made in the variety of inlaid wood work, or marquetry or tarsia, called pique, arid are not only pretty and pleasing, but interesting, on account of its having been found possible to trace [see my paper in the Journal of Bombay Asiatic Satiety, voL vii, 1861-63] introduction of the work into India from Persia, step by step, from Shiraz into Sindh, and to Bombay and Surat. In Bombay the inlay is made up of tin wire, sandal- wood, ebony, sappan [brazil] wood, ivory, white, and stained green, and stag horn. Strips of these ma- terials are bound together in rods, usually three-sided, sometimes round, and frequently obliquely four- sided, or rhombic. They again are so arranged in compound rods, as, vhen cut across, to present a definite pattern ; and in the mass have the appearance of rods of varying diameter and shape, or of very thin boards, the latter being intended for borderings. The patterns commonly found in Bombay, finally prepared for use, are chakar-gul > or “round bloom ; ,J kaiklgul, “ hexagonal bloom ; ,f finkonia-gul, “three-cornered bloom adhi-dhar-gul “rhombus bloom chorus gul 7 “square [matting- like] bloom ; n tiki, a small round pattern; an d gandirio, “plump," compounded of all the mate- rials used ; also ek dana, “ one grain," having the appearance of a row of stiver beads set in ebony; and port lihurjafran marapech , jeri, baehmitana, sankru hamio , and poro hansio , these eight last being bordering patterns. The work was introduced into Sindh from Shiraz, about 100 years ago, by three Multan is, Pershotum Hiralal, and the brothers De vidas and Valiram. A number of people acquired the art under them, and about seventy years ago it was introduced into Bombay by Manoredas, Natidlal, Lai ch and, Thawardas, Rattanji, Pranvalab, and Natron das, who educated a number of Parsis and Surat men, by whom it was carried to Surat, Baroda, Ahmedabad, and elsewhere. Fifty masters, all of whose names I have recorded, and about seventy- five apprentices under them, were engaged in the work in Bombay in 1863, of whom Atmaram Vuliram, and Parsliostam