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PASTILS. 



170. An excellent Compofition to perfume 

 a Room agreeably. 



Take four ounces of Gum Benjamin, 

 two ounces of Storax, and a charter of 

 an ounce of Aloes-wood. When thefe 

 ingredients have baen well bruifed, (immer 

 them about half an hour over a How fire, 

 in a glazed earthen pipkin, with as much 

 Rofe-water as will cover them, and then 

 ftrain off the liquor for ufe. Dry the Re- 

 iiduum or Marc, and pulverize it in a 

 warm mortar with a pound of Charcoal. 

 Diflblve fome Gum Tragacanth in the 

 referved Liquor, then add to your pow- 

 der a drachm of fine Oriental Mufk dif- 

 folved in a little Rofe-water, and form 

 the whole into a Pafte, of which make pa- 

 flils about the length and thicknefs of the 

 little finger, narrower at top than at bottom, 



that 



