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it be partially pressed, and the press-box re-opened 

 and more sloppy indigo put in and mixed up with it, and 

 the whole re-pressed, each cake will be of a pretty good 

 size, but each cake will also infallibly be in several 

 pieces on drying. \The half-pressed indigo will not mix 

 with the freshly put in indigo, however much it may be 

 stirred about, and the only effect of much stirring it 

 about will be that the future cakes will in proportion 

 be the more in pieces when they are dried. If the 

 indigo is watery and is half pressed, and the press 

 then re-opened and fresh indigo filled in, in order to 

 make large and square cakes, and the fresh indigo is 

 not stirred up, then each future cake will inevitably 

 dry in two distinct parts, an upper and a lower one, 

 differing in proportion in exact accordance with the 

 quality of each sort of indigo the first pressed, and 

 the afterwards added portion in the press box. 



It has been found better never to re-open a press 

 when once filled, but to press it steadily down, and 

 if the cakes are a little thinner than usual, it cannot 

 be helped they will at least dry whole, or most part 

 of them will, and they will be hard and firm, and dry 

 " square " and with but slight symptoms of " abdo- 

 minal contraction." 



The reason for the mat or fecula not settling as 

 sometimes happens giving great trouble, too, when 

 run out on the table is generally held to be bad, 



