badly-smelted

Updated: June 9, 2025

While the "bellows-blower" is thus getting up a blaze, another man attends upon the well, which he continues to feed alternately with fresh ore and a corresponding amount of charcoal, every now and then throwing in a handful of fine sand as a flux. The return for a whole day's puffing and blowing will be about twenty pounds weight of badly-smelted iron.

Sir Samuel White Baker - Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon