From this, about thirty pounds of rose-water are obtained.

Another forty pounds of roses are again added to this, and, at the utmost, twenty pounds of water distilled off.

This is then exposed during the night to the cold air in pans, and in the morning the oil is found swimming upon the surface and is skimmed off.

Not more than an ounce and a half of attar, at the utmost, is obtained from eighty pounds of roses.

An ounce of true attar costs, even at Ghazipoor, 40 rupees (4 pounds).
At 10 o'clock on the morning of the 28th, we at length reached the holy town of Benares.