13 USE OF ZINC ORE AS A PAINT. 



III. 



Account of a Mine of Zinc Ore, and its Application as » 

 Paint. By the Right Hon. Lord Ribblesdale, of Gis- 

 burne Park, Yorkshire *. 



SIR, 



0»*of z'mcas JtltEREWITH I send you a specimen of white paint, 

 w 1 e pam , ^i^j^,},^ for the sake of humanity, I trust will be found a 

 complete substitute for that baneful article white lead. 



I have used this paint for twelve years upon my house, 

 paling, doors, &c. It is of a delicate stone tint, but be- 

 comes equal in colour by time to the best white lead, and 

 for durability, for never blistering, and for body and adhe- 

 sion infinitely superior to it. 



Tf the specimen (which is the average of what may be 

 ordinarily obtained, although for particular purposes it may 

 be produced much finer), should meet with the approbation 

 of the Society of Arts, &c., I shall at any time, with the 

 greatest pleasure, at their request, render them all the in- 

 formation upon the subject in my power. I have painted 

 four or five years ago a vessel, which is now in his Majesty's 

 Resists salt wa- service, with this paint, and nothing can exceed the resist- 

 *®'^* ance which this paint makes to all the efifects of salt water 



to decompose it. 



I have the honour to be, with much respect. 

 Sir, 

 Your obedient humble servant, 



RIBBLESDALE. 



AiJdidonal Communication by Lord Ribblesdale, on his Ore of 

 Zitic. 

 Mines. The mines are situate at Mallam Moors, in Craven, 



Yorkshire, and in an extent of country of eleven or twelve 



* Trans, of Ihe Soc. of Arts for 1807, p. 35. Although this ore of 

 ■^inc did not appear, upon trial by various persons, fully to answer the 

 purposes of white lead, as a basis for paint, yet it possessed sufficient 

 merit, to induct the Society to vote their silver medal to his Lordship. 



thousand 



