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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19571#0251
THE ARTIST'S ASSISTANT. 237
£: Take any quantity of linfeed oil, and put it into.
£: an earthen, or any other vefTel ot a broad form, fq
£; that the oil may lie in it wit!: a very large furface ;
£; but the proportion ihould be fo limited that the oil
'; n^ay be about an inch thick in the veffel : the
t: earthen pans ufed for milk in the forming cream
for butter, arc very well accommodated to this
': purpolc. Along with the oil as much water fhould
" alfo be put in the veficl as will riic fix inches, or
" more, above the bottom ; place the vehel then,
" with oil {wimmins in the water, in an open place,
£: where fun and rain may have accefs to it, but
" where it may be as free from receiving dull and
" filth as poffible ; let it ftand in this condition, ftir-
<: ring the contents on every opportunity, for five or
f* fix weeks, or till it apnear of the confidence of
" treacle; take the oil then from off the water into
" a phial, or bottle of a long form, or what is better,
£1 into a fenarating funnel, fuch as is uied by the
c; chemifts, and there draw off the remainder of the
" water; place it afterwards, being in the long bottle
" or phial, in fuch heat as will render it perfectly
'; fluid, and the foulnefies it may contain, will foon
£i fubfide to the bottom, when the clear part mult be
'; noured off, and the remainder (trained through a.
£: ilannel, while yet warm, and the whole will then
'; be fit for ufe."
It is to be obferved, that this method is ocly prac-
ticable in fummer, the fun not having lufficieut
power in winter to produce a due change in the o:L
This method differs from that commonly practifed
in the addition of water, which fuffers the foulnefs
to feparate from the oil, and fink to the bottom,
where it remains, without being again mixed with
the
*
£: Take any quantity of linfeed oil, and put it into.
£: an earthen, or any other vefTel ot a broad form, fq
£; that the oil may lie in it wit!: a very large furface ;
£; but the proportion ihould be fo limited that the oil
'; n^ay be about an inch thick in the veffel : the
t: earthen pans ufed for milk in the forming cream
for butter, arc very well accommodated to this
': purpolc. Along with the oil as much water fhould
" alfo be put in the veficl as will riic fix inches, or
" more, above the bottom ; place the vehel then,
" with oil {wimmins in the water, in an open place,
£: where fun and rain may have accefs to it, but
" where it may be as free from receiving dull and
" filth as poffible ; let it ftand in this condition, ftir-
<: ring the contents on every opportunity, for five or
f* fix weeks, or till it apnear of the confidence of
" treacle; take the oil then from off the water into
" a phial, or bottle of a long form, or what is better,
£1 into a fenarating funnel, fuch as is uied by the
c; chemifts, and there draw off the remainder of the
" water; place it afterwards, being in the long bottle
" or phial, in fuch heat as will render it perfectly
'; fluid, and the foulnefies it may contain, will foon
£i fubfide to the bottom, when the clear part mult be
'; noured off, and the remainder (trained through a.
£: ilannel, while yet warm, and the whole will then
'; be fit for ufe."
It is to be obferved, that this method is ocly prac-
ticable in fummer, the fun not having lufficieut
power in winter to produce a due change in the o:L
This method differs from that commonly practifed
in the addition of water, which fuffers the foulnefs
to feparate from the oil, and fink to the bottom,
where it remains, without being again mixed with
the
*