48 THE TOILET 



flopped only with a loofe paper cork, to 

 give the fiery particles an opportunity of 

 evaporating. What remains in the body 

 of the ftill is not to be confidered as wholly 

 ufelefs. After evaporating it to drynefs> 

 burn the refiduum of the plants and aro- 

 matics; and when the whole mafs is re- 

 duced to afhes, throw them into a vefiel of 

 boiling water, in which let them remain 

 two or three minutes on the fire. Then 

 remove the vefTel, and let the water fland 

 till cold, when it is to be filtered through, 

 blotting paperi The water, which ap- 

 pears limpid, is tabe fet on the fire again, 

 and wholly evaporated. At the bottom of 

 the veffel, which ought to be a new-glazed 

 earthen pot, will remain a pure white fixed 

 fait, which may be diffolved in the Ma- 

 gifterail Balm-water. 



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