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lodged In the ground ; the water [is flrongly im- 
pregnated with a lixivium of fedgi mutti * fix parts 
and quick lime feven parts. After remaining in this 
flate eight or ten days, they are again wafhed, and 
while wet, broken into fibres, by the ftampiug lever. 
Fig. i. [Tab. VII.] and then expofed to the fun, 
upon a clean terrafs, built for this purpofe ; after 
which, they are again fleeped, in a frefh lixivium, 
as before. When they have undergone three opera- 
tions of this kind, they are fit for making coarfe 
brown paper ; after feven or eight operations, 
they are prepared for making paper, of a tolerable 
whitenefs. 
The rags, thus prepared, are mixed with. water 
in the ciflern, Fig. 2. at the edge of which the 
operator fits, and removing the flick, he extends 
the fcreen, Fig. 3. upon the frame, Fig. 4. with 
which he agitates the water in the ciftern, until it 
Appears of a milky whitenefs^ by the floating 
particles of the rags ; he then dips the frame and 
fcreen, in a perpendicular manner, and raifes them 
gently, in a horizontal pofition, to the fur face of 
the water, where he gives the frame a gentle 
motion, from fide to fide, or from end to end, to 
make the particles of the rags fall in an equal layer 
upon the fcreen, and then he lifts them out of the 
water, and refts them for the fpace of a minute, 
upon the flick 3, in Fig. 3. After repeating the 
dip once more in the fame manner, the new fheet 
* Sedgi Mutti is an earth, containing a large portion of foffil 
alkali. The vurpov of the antients. It is found in great plenty 
in. this country, and univerfally ufed in walking,, bleaching, 
foap making, and for various other purpofes. 
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