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top, or bottom , that it may be clear and 

 marketable. The dregs that are pared off* 

 may be re-melted, and will yield a little 

 more wax. 



Inftead of perfons to hold the Bag, which 

 is fatiguing, it may be flung upon a ftrong 

 ftaff, with the ends refting on the backs of 

 two chairs, &c. 



Or a four-legged frame might be more 

 eligible; high and wide enough to admit a 

 tub of water in the infide ; and with ftrong 

 pegs fixed on the top, at proper diftances s 

 for fuftaining the bag in the middle of the 

 frame. The bag is to have a running firing 

 to draw the mouth together. 



The vefTels in which wax is boiled ought 

 to be confiderably larger than the matter 

 contained ; for when the wax boils, it very 

 fuddenly rifes to a great height, and may 



prove of DANGEROUS CONSEQUENCE. 



A more expeditious method cf extracting 

 the wax from fine combs is, by boiling 

 them alone. Prefs them flightly down, ufe 

 very little water, keep them ftirring till the 

 fcum rifes, which take off as long as any 

 rifes ; but when only froth appears, blow 



3 that 



