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It will be beft to melt the rofin in a cylindrical glafs, in a bed
of hot fand, after the glafs has been well annealed, or warmed
by degrees, in the fand; under which you mull keep a gentle fire.
When the varnifh is made, pour it into a coarfe linen bag,
and prefs it between two hot boards of oak or iron, and ufe it
with any of your colours, as well as to varnifh them over when
they are painted.
AMlSER-GREASE, is a fragrant drug, which melts pretty
much like wax j commonly of a grey or alh colour j ufed as a
perfume, &c.
Naturalifts are of various opinions, as to its origin and pro-
duction.
Somefuppofe it to be the excrement of a bird, which, being
melted by the heat of the fun, and wafhed off the more by the
waves, is fwallowed by whales, who return it back in the con-
dition in which it is found. Some take it for a kind of wax or
gum, which diftils from trees, and drops into the fea, where
it congeals, and becomes Amber-greafe. Some affirm it to be
a vegetable production iffuing out from the root of a tree, whofe
roots always fhoot towards the fea, and difcharge them into it.
Some fuppofe it to be a kind of a fea mufhroom, which is torn
up from the bottom by the violence of tempefts; it being ob-
ferved, that Amber-greafe is feldom found, but after ftorms.
Some are of opinion, that Amber-greafe is formed from the
honey-combs, which fall into the fea from the rocks where
the bees have hived, or made their nefts ; which laft opinion
was lately generally allowed, as having fomething of expe-
rience in its favour; feveral pieces of it having been feen that
were half Amber-greafe, and half plain honey-comb ; and large
pieces have been found, which, when broken, honey-comb
and honey too, have been found in the middle. And others
take it to be a bituminous matter, which is at firft liquid and
runs into the fea, and is there condenfed and reduced to a
mafs; of this opinion are the beft naturalifts.
Amber-greafe is of confiderable ufe in making perfumes, by
melting it over a gentle fire, and making extracts, eflences, and
tinctures of it.
Amber-greafe is often adulterated as follows: They take ben
nuts an ounce and an half, and pound them to a perfect pulp ;
and add an ounce and an half of fperma ceti; beating them well
together ; then they add benjamin in fine powder, orrice of
Florence finely powdered, and white ftarch, of each three
ounces and an half; bitumen, reduced to fine powder, half an
ounce ; mufk, reduced to fine powder, a quarter of an ounce ;
Amber-greafe, in fine powder, three ounces: Thefe are mixed
toge^
It will be beft to melt the rofin in a cylindrical glafs, in a bed
of hot fand, after the glafs has been well annealed, or warmed
by degrees, in the fand; under which you mull keep a gentle fire.
When the varnifh is made, pour it into a coarfe linen bag,
and prefs it between two hot boards of oak or iron, and ufe it
with any of your colours, as well as to varnifh them over when
they are painted.
AMlSER-GREASE, is a fragrant drug, which melts pretty
much like wax j commonly of a grey or alh colour j ufed as a
perfume, &c.
Naturalifts are of various opinions, as to its origin and pro-
duction.
Somefuppofe it to be the excrement of a bird, which, being
melted by the heat of the fun, and wafhed off the more by the
waves, is fwallowed by whales, who return it back in the con-
dition in which it is found. Some take it for a kind of wax or
gum, which diftils from trees, and drops into the fea, where
it congeals, and becomes Amber-greafe. Some affirm it to be
a vegetable production iffuing out from the root of a tree, whofe
roots always fhoot towards the fea, and difcharge them into it.
Some fuppofe it to be a kind of a fea mufhroom, which is torn
up from the bottom by the violence of tempefts; it being ob-
ferved, that Amber-greafe is feldom found, but after ftorms.
Some are of opinion, that Amber-greafe is formed from the
honey-combs, which fall into the fea from the rocks where
the bees have hived, or made their nefts ; which laft opinion
was lately generally allowed, as having fomething of expe-
rience in its favour; feveral pieces of it having been feen that
were half Amber-greafe, and half plain honey-comb ; and large
pieces have been found, which, when broken, honey-comb
and honey too, have been found in the middle. And others
take it to be a bituminous matter, which is at firft liquid and
runs into the fea, and is there condenfed and reduced to a
mafs; of this opinion are the beft naturalifts.
Amber-greafe is of confiderable ufe in making perfumes, by
melting it over a gentle fire, and making extracts, eflences, and
tinctures of it.
Amber-greafe is often adulterated as follows: They take ben
nuts an ounce and an half, and pound them to a perfect pulp ;
and add an ounce and an half of fperma ceti; beating them well
together ; then they add benjamin in fine powder, orrice of
Florence finely powdered, and white ftarch, of each three
ounces and an half; bitumen, reduced to fine powder, half an
ounce ; mufk, reduced to fine powder, a quarter of an ounce ;
Amber-greafe, in fine powder, three ounces: Thefe are mixed
toge^