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    b y the foire or , iniddie finger , and " sometimes by the . ' thumb .

    1 . 8 .. For the board-writing each scholar has a thin flat board , the surface of wbich on one side he covers all over with a thin coat of fine powdered charcoal , and , in order to attach it to the wood and to prepare it for the reception of the writing , he rubs it gently with

    a fresh leaf of either the white or black stramonium , the juice of vhica , by combining with the charcoal , forms it into a . paste that will with gentle friction adhere to the board . It must then be kept a &hbrt while in tKe sun , until the be

    p ^ ste dried hard , when the surface will be perfectly smooth and of a deep black colour . 19 . This coat ought to be made about the thickness of writing paper , and the scholar writes with a

    pencil made of pot-stone , between white lines formed by means of a String covered with a little of that stpne powdered . 20 * When the board is ready for

    lise , the first or second master , if tyto only , writes a line of large let . Uts along the top of it , as a copy ; the boys carefully copy the letters over and over again , between the lines underneath , pronouncing each

    every time , until the board shall be filled with writing ; it is . then ftfiewn to one of the masters , who carefully examines and corrects it . 2 U When the board has been written all over , the coat of charcoal is not lemoved , but the writ *

    mf * 13 defaced by scattering a little < pf that powder upon it ; a small cjiiantity of the juice of the thorn , apple is again added , the surface is rubbed gentl y with the leaf , and the board dried as before .

    22 . As soQia as the coat of charcoal fe ^ cemes vcjrv thick , ami no

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    longer fit for writing on , it is washed off , and renewed as befofe .

    23 . When the scholars are able to write the letters correctly in a large hand ) they ar 6 instructed to make them gradually smaller ; and when they have reduced thern to a tolerable size the board is laid aside , and a large slate-leaf-book is substituted in its place *

    24 . At first they have still the guidance of lines ; but as the writ . ing improves in shape , and the let * ters approach their pfop ^ r sizp , this aid is taken away , and they complete this part of instruction either by persevering in the use of the slate-book or by writing ba

    P P - .,- > . < 25 . At the time that the scholars are practising boai * d-writing , they are likewise taught to make the letters on the palmyra leaf ,

    with an iron style ; a , n < l ici c this writing they afterwards , p ^ erseVere until peifect . * 26 . As soon as the scholftrs shall have made some progress in

    writ-* The Gentoo language is taught la the same manner as die Canarese . The Hindoos of the Malabar coast are taught first to write in sand with the finger , and afterwards on the leaf of the palmyra tree , with the iron style ; ffori ^ this thej proceed to paper-writing , hut they neither use the board nor the slate leave * in

    the school . Neither the Mahomedans nor the Mahrattas ever practise sandwriting , but commence with the board , and afterwards write on paper : they do not use the palmyra leaf . The board used by the Mahrattas is covered with a thin coat of red earth and water * on

    which , when dry and hard , they form the letters -with a pointed piece of bathboo ; the Mahornedans have their writing-board painted of any fancy colour , upon which they write with a pen made of reed , and ink * they rub out } k writing with a piece of wet cloth , which does not injure the coat . Those wh # cannot aff o rd " to have tfcc board painted , cover the surface them * clv §» with a patfc

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    474 * Account <* f th $ Natix * ; Schools in India .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1814, page 474, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2443/page/26/