This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...and you will not light a slow fire till night time, but burn (677 B) it all night till the fourth hour of the day: it is roasted till it becomes pure and so it is again set in a furnace fired with coals of pine or fir'trees. And you will roast it for three hours and then work. ON MELTING GLASS (677 C) Melting of glass. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...and you will not light a slow fire till night time, but burn (677 B) it all night till the fourth hour of the day: it is roasted till it becomes pure and so it is again set in a furnace fired with coals of pine or fir'trees. And you will roast it for three hours and then work. ON MELTING GLASS (677 C) Melting of glass. It is a sand occurring in various places, it is found also in parts of Italy in the mountains: it is a glass colored stone, blackish. Now this is the test: take some of the sand, put it in a vase, fire it suitably with coals and glass will run from below (677 D) your hand, but of poor quality. Take some of that same sand and wash it with powder, and let it run off; make a glass blower's furnace, and two sets of bellows and in this way bring about the melting of the former glass like that of pitch; and you will take that former glass which is worthless and break it up and roast again in the furnace like pitch. How to dye genuine leather. How genuine (677 E) leathers are to be dyed. You take a skin from which the hair has been removed and which has been washed suitably, and you also take gallnut you use for each hide five pounds, and of water fifteen pounds; and you set the skin and stir for one day and then you wash it well, and dry it. You take Asiatic alum, pour warm water on the alum and (678 A) when it settles pour the water off and then again pour on warm water, and stir it; put in one skin or two or as many as you wish and you will take them up and you wash them once and put in vermilion, for every skin a half pound. This is the first way to dye the skins. You will take (678 B) vermilion and grind it in a mortar. You put reduced urine in a hot crucible and pour the ground vermilion into a thin cloth and put it in a hot crucible and stir ...
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