210 Of preparing Honey and Wax. 
the form of a funnel, and which is commonly 
called Hippocrates’s Lever. \t is made of thin 
{trong canvafs, and of fuch a length, that the 
upper part may come over the end of a board, 
which leans upon my breaft, while the other 
end of it is placed in a veffel fit to receive 
the wax, from which I prefs out the water and 
the wax, pretty much in the fame way that the 
tanners drefs their leather. 
I generally boil what remains in the bag a 
fecond time, and fqueeze it again to obtain 
more wax. By this method, however, the wax 
cannot be got entirely out of the drofs ; nor in- 
deed can it be obtained by any other mode that 
I have ever feen or heard of being attempted. 
All the wax that is ultimately left among the 
drofs, in this way of feparating it, is of very 
little value, and would not refund the expence 
of any further trouble. * 
After the wax 1s cooled in the tub, I again 
put it into the kettle with clean water, and hav- 
ing 
* T have tried feveral other methods, in order to extract all the 
wax from the drofs. Near twenty years ago, I got a prefs made 
for this purpofe, fomewhat refembling thofe which the candle- 
makers ufe to {queeze their tallow with; but, finding it did not 
an{wer the purpofe, I laid it afide. I have alfo put in pra@ice 
Mr Keys’s method, but, after repeated trials, found it not fatie- 
faétory. 
