Meinorandums, Hints, Precepts, and Recipes, &fc. 1 1 7 



fiter, the deliverer, when Pubhus Otilavius being gnvcnior, 

 AJareus Claucrms Pofthiimus commander in ehiet", and Try- 

 phon general, the deputies of the metropoHs coniecraied, in 

 virtue of the law, the Propylaeum to Ifis, the greatcfl of the 

 goddefles, and to the aflbciated gods of the temple, in the 

 31ft year of Caefar." Here the iufcriptiorl breaks off, but, 

 in tlie Greek, the two words SD-T® SEBASTHI follow. 

 For thefe the French tranflator unaccountably fubllitutes — 

 Le College des Prctres a V Impercitrice, whereas it fimply lig- 

 nifies on the /acred Thoth. 



It will now fuffice to add, that the nineteen boats under the 

 zodiac exliibit the nineteen years of the JNIetonic cycle; and 

 to afk, Where wozy are the 15,000 jyears before Chrijl of the 

 commifTioncr Fourrier? 



XIX. Meinorandians, Hints, "Precepts, end Recipes, for 

 the Uj'e of Artijls, Manufuclurers, and others ; including 

 various j/jort ProceJJes either new or little known* ^ 

 [Continued from Vol. xi. p. 149.] 



Cements for Derlyfhire Spar ar.d other Stones, 



I. fx. CEMENT for this purpofe may be made with about 

 feven or eight parts of refin and one of bees wax melted to- 

 gether, with a fmall quantity of plaifter of Paris. If it is 

 wifhed to make the cement fill up the place of any fmall 

 chips that mav have been lod, the quantity of plaiiter nuift 

 be increafed a little. When the ingredients are well mixed, 

 and the whole is nearly cold, the mals fliould be well kne-ided 

 together. The pieces of fpar that are to be joined muft be 

 heated until they will melt the cement, and tlien prcfled to- 

 gether, fome of the cement being previoufly inter])ol'i.d. 



II. Melted fulphur applied to fragments of Hones, pre- 

 vioufly heated (by placing them before a fire) to at lead the 

 melting point of fulphur — and then joined with the fulphur. 

 between, makes a pretty firm and durable joining. 



Little deficiencies in the (lone, as chips out of corners, &c. 

 may alfo be filled up with melted fulphur in which fome of 

 the powder of the (tone has been mixed, — Heat the ftone. 

 firft. 



• Cominunicntionii of prafllcal approved recipes and ufeful liints aro 

 ?«qucllcd from our corrcfpoiidcnts. NVc t;ikc iliis opportunity of thanking 

 Mt'il". Oill, rtjjys, an.l other friends, for thtir favours in this \v;iy. 



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