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from certain trees under the form of the 

 tears of the turpentine tree. The yellow 

 is the befl ; that which is black is indiffe- 

 rent. 



. The cie^ when frefli and moift, exhales a 

 malignant vapour, which occafions palenefs 

 and prodigious fwelUng in the faces of thofe 

 who colled: it for the fir ft time. This ma^ 

 lady cannot be cured but by rubbing the 

 part affeded with the afhes of burned fea- 

 thers. Without this remedy the diforder 

 increafes, a fever enfues^ and the patient 

 is expofed to great danger. 



Works to which this varnifli is applied 

 do not dry except in a very moift place, 

 which requires time ; but when they are 

 once dry, tliey remain always in the fame 

 ftate, and never alter. Articles which are 

 well varnifiied, receive feven^coats of varniih^ 

 one of which is never laid upon another 

 until the former is perfcdly dry. Hence 

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