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T fueat’d it ail over with a Tallow-candle ; and then 
\ hdd it ter the Fire a little, ’till the Creafe had 
infiniiated itfelf into the Pores of ‘5^® 
thU T reoeated three times ^ after which I pour d all 
ov“r uTlS Tripol, wilh’d *an, which I «> ■ 
into the Leather with the Greafe fo long, till 
Grcafc or Tallow became warm, when I pout d o.i 
S, repeating that Operation four or five times, till 
wken"LrPoU°et’d Emery [a Powder 
or £ne alfo ufed by the SdveVfmiths to Poli^ their 
Platen which I firft beep’d m a little Wa er and 
fhen^ur-da good deal more link 
ftir’d well together, and afterwards let it Itand a lime, 
I DourM offtheuppermoftpart of the Water that was im- 
r>re<inated with the fine Emery into another Glats ; and 
rftemhatl put a little Linnen or Woollen Rag into the 
aforefaid Water, one end of which extended itfeif to t e 
bottorof the faid Emery, which 1 fuppoftto remain in 
the Glafs and the other end of the 
orde?to draw off. all the Water from the fubfiied Eme- 
ry • wh’ch Emery hying thereby become dry, I 
\I into the Tallow’d-Leather in ^ 
done the Tripoly before, only with this dittwrcnce, tnac 
done tne 1 y fmooth Ivory, 
I work the being done, I broke 
or elfe ^.th a Burmlhing-St^^^^^ ,^th,s^D^^ 
^L^Ra^ors wbh which I have cut Wood, and which 
ha^ thrown afide as ufelefs, have been recover d to 
fuch a Degree, as to become ht to (have ones Beard 
®®Th» aforemention’d Barber complain’d to me, that he 
had a^Razor, which tho’ it appear d very fair to the 
?ve vet «asfo biff, that he coud bring no Edge 
. iJ \v oaffino it ever fo often upon a Hone : I deft* 
■ ;^d him that I might look upon it .thro’ my Miccofcc,oe, 
