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Having spoken thus far of some of the Dying stuffs, before I engage upon the main, and speak more fully of those which have been but slightly touched upon already, I shall more synoptically here insert a Catalogue of all Dying Materials, as well such as I have already treated upon, as such as I intend hereafter to describe.

'The three peculiar Ingredients for Black are Copperas, filings of Steel, and Slippe.

'The Restringent binding Materials are Alder Bark, Pomegranet Pills, Wallnut rinds and roots, Oaken Sapling Bark, and Saw-dust of the same; Crab-tree Bark, Galls, and Sumach.

'The Salts of Allum, Argol, Salt-peter, Sal-Armoniack, Pot-ashes, and Stone-Lime, unto which Urine may be enumerated as a liquid Salt.

'The Liquors are Well-water, River-water, Wine, Aqua-vitæ, Vinegar, Juyce of Lemon, and Aqua-fortis: There is Honey used, and Molasses.

'Ingredients of another Classis are Bran, Wheaten-flour, Yolks of Eggs, Leaven, Cummin-seed, Fenugreek-seed, Agarick, and Senna.

'Gums are Gum Arabick, Dragant, Mastick, and Sanguis Draconis.

'The Smecticks or Abstersives are Fuller's-earth, Soap, Linseed-oyl, and Ox-gall.

'The other Metals and Minerals are Pewter, Verdegrease, Antimony, Litharge, and Arsenick.

'But the Colorantia colorata are of three sorts, viz. Blue, Yellow, and Red; of which Logwood, old Fustick, and Mather, are the Polycaresta in the present and common practices, being one of each sort. The Blues are Woad, Indico and Logwood: TheYellows are Weld, Wood-wax, and old Fustick, as also

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