US Ohje^is of the Art of Pying, i^c. 381 



from the fame barilla, the quantity of whicli 

 fhould be about fifty-two gallons. 



A liquor is alfo prepared, confiding of four 

 gallons of fheeps' dung, collecled, after it has 

 been excreted from the animal, and before it has 

 been expofed to rain, diflblved in twenty gal- 

 lons of water, and drained through a liair fieve, 

 to feparate from it the groITer parts. 



Thefe preparatory meafures being taken, the 

 firft operation confilts in adding nine pounds of 

 Gallipoly oil, to eight gallons of the fecond ba- 

 rilla liquor ; this forms a kind of foap, to which 

 are to be added twenty-four gallons of the firft 

 barilla liquor, twelve gallons of the dung liquor, 

 and forty-eight gallons of foft water. Into this 

 liquor, when nearly of a fcalding heat, the cot- 

 ton is to be put ; room being made for it by 

 taking Out abbut twenty gallons of the liquor, 

 which is to be gradually returned into the pan, 

 in proportion to the wafte by evaporation : and 

 the whole is to be kept boiling, during five 

 hours. After which the cotton is taken Out of 

 the pan, fufpended over it to drain, and then 

 well rung, wafhed in clear water, ahd hung 

 on fmooth poles to dry, either in the open air, or 

 in a ftove ; but the former is to be preferred, if 

 the weather be fair. 



The liquor wrung out of the cotton is to be 

 preferved, together with the remainder in the 

 pan, for a future operation; and, at this time, 



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