190 PHYSIOLOGICAL REMAINS. 



But now for pans, pots, curfews, counters, and 

 the like, the beauty will not be so much respected, 

 so as the compound stuff is like to pass. 



For the better use of the compound stuff, it will 

 be sweeter and cleaner than brass alone, which 

 yieldeth a smell or soiliness ; and therefore may be 

 better for the vessels of the kitchen and brewing. It 

 will also be harder than brass, where hardness may 

 be required. 



For the trial, the doubts will be two : first ; the 

 over-weight of brass towards iron, which will make 

 iron float on the top in the melting. This perhaps 

 will be holpen with the calaminar stone, which con- 

 senteth so well with brass, and, as I take it, is lighter 

 than iron. The other doubt will be the stiffness 

 and dryness of iron to melt ; which must be holpen 

 either by moistening the iron, or opening it. For 

 the first, perhaps some mixture of lead will help. 

 Which is as much more liquid than brass, as iron is 

 less liquid. The opening may be holpen by some 

 mixture of sulphur : so as the trials would be with 

 brass, iron, calaminar stone, and sulphur ; and then 

 again with the same composition, and an addition 

 of some lead ; and in all this the charge must be 

 considered, whether it eat not out the profit of the 

 cheapness of iron ? 



There be two proofs to be made of incorporation 

 of metals for magnificence and delicacy. The one 

 for the eye, and the other for the ear. Statue- 

 metal, and bell-metal, and trumpet-metal, and string- 

 metal ; in all these, though the mixture of brass or 



