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Durrell Stables Survayer of the Meltings Gold Pot Book, April 25, 1814

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Chinese Method of rendering Cloth water-proof
To one ounce of white wax, melted, add one quart of Spirits of Turpentine which when thoroughly mixed & cold stir the Cloth in, and hang it up to dry. By this cheap & easy method, muslin, as well as the Strongest Cloths, will be rendered impenetrable to the hardest rain, without the pores being filled up, or any injury done, when the cloth is coloured
Ammonia is recommended by Dr. Macculloch for cleaning gold bracelets & jewelry  -

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Take the leaves of Ivory with which you form your Tablets and have thoroughly cleaned them, rub over them some juice of Garlic this will take off that greasiness which is generally complained of.

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To make strong, or Bookbinder's Paste 
Mix wheaten Flour, first in cold Water, then boil it till it be of a glutenous consistence; this method makes common place when you wish it to be of a stronger nature, mix a fourth 5th or 6th of the weight of the flour of powdered Alum; and when it is wanted of a still more tenacious quality, add a little powdered rosin -

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Safe, sure, and easy Method of destroying Rats
Lay some bird lime in their usual haunts, with which they will inevitable daub their feet, and as it is very [illegible] to them to remove it, they will desert their former haunts & [illegible]

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5 [left margin] 77 Chinese Method of rendering Cloth water-proof To one ounce of white wax, melted, add one quart of Spirits of Turpentine which when thoroughly mixed & cold stir the Cloth in, and hang it up to dry. By this cheap & easy method, muslin, as well as the Strongest Cloths, will be rendered impenetrable to the hardest rain, without the pores being filled up, or any injury done, when the cloth is coloured Ammonia is recommended by Dr. Macculloch for cleaning gold bracelets & jewelry - [left margin] 74 Take the leaves of Ivory with which you form your Tablets and have thoroughly cleaned them, rub over them some juice of Garlic this will take off that greasiness which is generally complained of. [left margin] 70 To make strong, or Bookbinder's Paste Mix wheaten Flour, first in cold Water, then boil it till it be of a glutenous consistence; this method makes common place when you wish it to be of a stronger nature, mix a fourth 5th or 6th of the weight of the flour of powdered Alum; and when it is wanted of a still more tenacious quality, add a little powdered rosin - [left margin] 165? Safe, sure, and easy Method of destroying Rats Lay some bird lime in their usual haunts, with which they will inevitable daub their feet, and as it is very [illegible] to them to remove it, they will desert their former haunts & [illegible]