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spring water, add juice of three lemons: apt in hot countries to 

 produce cholera. — Orange sherbet. Use oranges for lemons; more 

 wholesome than lemonade. 



Tea punch. Hot tea 2 pints, arrack f a bottle, about 13f oz., 

 white sugar 4 oz., flavoured by rubbing off the yellow peel of 4 

 lemons, add juice of 8 lemons. 



Ulne punch. Arrack 2 pints, juice of 12 lemons, white sugar 

 lib., hot tea 6 pints, Port wine 2 pints. 



2. White sugar -?- lb., flavoured by rubbing off the yellow peel 

 of 3 lemons, Port wine 1 gall., boil, adding at the end cinnamon 

 V an oz., strain, add arrack 1 pint, and juice of 9 lemons. 



CoM punch. Arrack, Port wine, and water, of each 2 pints, 

 juice of 8 lemons, white sugar 1 lb. 



Iced punch. Champagne wine, or Rhenish wine, 2 pints, arrack 

 1 pint, juice of G lemons, wliite sugar 1 lb., flavoured by rubbing 

 off the yellow peel of 6 lemons ; ice as cream. 



USED IN THE ARTS. 



Refined ox gall, Fel horns pur ificatum. Fresh ox gall. 1 lb. ; boil, 

 skim, add alum 1 oz., and keep it on the fire for some time; to 

 another pint add common salt 1 oz., in the same manner ; keep 

 them bottled up for three months, then decant off the clear: mix 

 them in an equal proportion ; a thick yellow coagulum is immedi- 

 ately formed, leaving the refined gall clear and colourless : used by 

 limners, enabling them to lay several successive coats of colours 

 upon drawings, to fix chalk and pencil drawings so that they may 

 be tinted, to remove the greasiness of ivory, and even allowing 

 them to paint with water colours upon oiled paper or satin. 



Liquid pounce. Subscarb. of soda 1 oz., water a pint ; colour 

 with syr. rhamni 3 ij, or a little sap green. If potash is used in- 

 stead of soda the ink will spread. 



Marking ink. Lunar caustic 3 ij, distilled water 3 v j ; dissolve 

 and add gum water 5 ij : wet the linen where you intend to write 



with lidiiid poiiiuc. drv it. :iik1 tlun write upon it with a clean 



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S/uon U//r, Litjui:! blur. Indigo lib., oil of vitriol !• lb. ; dis- 

 lolvc, by keeping the bottle in boiling water, then add water \^l 

 lb., or q. p. 



Chemic, Sulphatr of imlign. Indigo 111)., oil of vitriol ])crfectly 

 free from nitrous gas 9 lb. : used in dyeing greens. 



Sfdufimi of indigo. Hub Guatimala flora indigo 5 j with recti- 

 fied oil of vitriol 3 iv, dilute with water ^ iij ; add whiting to 

 neutralize the acid, and filter the liciuid : used to measure the 

 discolouring power of chlorine and chloride of lime. 



