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Show 5 the vatman, Mr. Faigmohomad, the worker who macerated the pulp, an Mr. Shobabudn, the finisher of the paper We stood in a courtyard about twenty feet square, bordered on thre sides by the crumbling walls of other buildings. On the open side of th court there were three elaborately oramented ogival arches supported b four carved colums, the entrance to the living apartments of the paper mil owner and his family. The open courtyard was littered with large earthenware cooking utensil, string-beds, and rubbish of every description. Th cement dipping-vat, built into the ground as at Sailkot, was in the open protruding top edges of the vat, made the sea used by the vatman whe ¢ was in the act of forming sheets of paper. The couching board rested o 2 smoot cement counter, also raised slightl from the sumounding dir beaterman held to an insecure mud wall for baldncmg support, while i Sailkot a rope, hung from the ceiling, prevented the worker from losing hi alance. The courtyard was strewn with broken stones, cement, and mh debris; an old vat, apparently no longer fit for use, was being dug from th ground. There was every indication that paper had been fabricated in thi same locality for many generations, though neither the mill owner nor th workers knew anything relative to the local history of the state that he had learned the art of papermaking fiom bis [orcbcars, "ab had madc paper a thousand years. Digital image © 2005 MarriottLibrary Universit of Utah, All rihts reserved |