Infeff which produces the Gum Lacca. 379 
you have got a mafs of three or four pounds of 
liquified Shell Lac upon the end of your flick*. 
Knead this upon a wetted board with three 
ounces of levigated cinnabar, form it into cylin- 
drical pieces ; and, to give them a polifh, rub 
them while hot with a cotton cloth. 
Japanning. Take a lump of Shell Lac, prepared in the 
manner of fealing-wax, with whatever colour 
you pleafe, fix it upon the end of a flick, heat 
the polifhed wood over a charcoal fire, and rub it 
over with the half-melted Lac, and polifh, by- 
rubbing it even with a piece of folded Plantain 
leaf held in the hand ; heating the lacquer, and 
adding more Lac as occafion requires. Their 
figures are formed by Lac, charged with various 
colours in the lame manner. 
Yarnifh. In ornamenting their images and religious 
houfes, &c. they make ufe of very thin beat lead, 
which they cover with various varnifhes, made of 
Lac charged with colours. The preparation of 
them is kept a fecret. The leaf of lead is laid 
upon a fmooth > iron heated by fire below, while 
they fpread the varnifh upon it. 
Grindflones. Take of river land three parts, of Seed Lac 
walhed one part, mix them over the fire in a pot, 
and form the mafs into the lhape of a grind- 
flone, having a fquare hole in the center, fix it 
-on an axis with liquified Lac, heat the frone 
moderately, and by turning the axis it may ealiiy 
be formed into an exafit orbicular fhape. Polifh- 
* la this manner Lump Lac is formed from Seed Lac. 
