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nefs, to every hundred pounds of foda; ft!r it with a long wooden
ladle, and put in the rochetta or loda ; continue the fire, ftir-
ring with the wcoden ladle in the copper, till all the Polverine
is incorporated with the water, and the fait extracted. The
water being one third part boiled away, fill your coppers again
with frefh water, and continue the boiling till half be confumed;,
when the ley will be made.
Your ley thus being made, fiacken your fire, and empty your
ley into earthen pans very well glazed ; let it ftand fo fix days,
that the afhes may fettle to the bottom, and the ley become clear j-
pour that ley into other earthen pots, leaving the afhes behindh-
and let it ftand two days longer, and the ley will become very
limpid and clear, all the earthy fasces precipitating and fet-
tling at the bottom ; continue this three times, and you will
have a clear and limpid ley, which will yield a very fine and
perfect fait.
Fill the copper with the refined and clarified leys in the pans i
gently boil it to evaporate the water, till it begins to thicken
and moot its fait, which it commonly does in about twenty-four
hours time, To that the fait begins to appear on the furface of
the copper.
Let the fire be gentle and eafy as foon as the fait begins to
fhoot, for fear the fait fhould flick to the copper, which a great
fire will caufe it to do, and fo burn it; which often happens to
thofe that do not take fuch precaution.
This reafon ought to oblige thofe who work in this art to
procure veffels well lined with lead, fuch as they ufe to boil alum
in j befides, thefe leys, being fharp and corroding, deftroy and
confume the brafs by degrees, or the moifture cankers it, and
fd it fpoils the colour and beauty of the fait.
The fait, being well drained, mult be pat into little wooden
tubs or fats, the better to dry out all the moifture, according to
the feafon wherein it was made; then beat it grotty, and put it
into a furnace moderately heated, there gently to dry. It being
thus, take it out of the furnace and pound it in a ftone mortar,
or grind it in a mi::, and afterwards fift it through a fine fieve,
the holes whereof are not bigger than grains of wheat: This fait,
Being thus prepared, ought to be kept in a dry and convenier.
place, where there is no duft.
POMEGRANATE bkjJom\ to colour this, lay on minium,
vermilion, and carmine, and Imifh with carmine.
Let the green be verditer and mafticote, and fhade with iris.
Giacomo PONTE da Bajfaw il Vecchlo, was fcholar to his fa-
ther Bonifacio, ftudied Titian and Parmegiano ; born in the
year 1510, lived at Baffano and Venice, excelled in hiftory,
animals, landfcapes, and portraits; died in 1502^ aged 82 year ;.
1 J POR-
nefs, to every hundred pounds of foda; ft!r it with a long wooden
ladle, and put in the rochetta or loda ; continue the fire, ftir-
ring with the wcoden ladle in the copper, till all the Polverine
is incorporated with the water, and the fait extracted. The
water being one third part boiled away, fill your coppers again
with frefh water, and continue the boiling till half be confumed;,
when the ley will be made.
Your ley thus being made, fiacken your fire, and empty your
ley into earthen pans very well glazed ; let it ftand fo fix days,
that the afhes may fettle to the bottom, and the ley become clear j-
pour that ley into other earthen pots, leaving the afhes behindh-
and let it ftand two days longer, and the ley will become very
limpid and clear, all the earthy fasces precipitating and fet-
tling at the bottom ; continue this three times, and you will
have a clear and limpid ley, which will yield a very fine and
perfect fait.
Fill the copper with the refined and clarified leys in the pans i
gently boil it to evaporate the water, till it begins to thicken
and moot its fait, which it commonly does in about twenty-four
hours time, To that the fait begins to appear on the furface of
the copper.
Let the fire be gentle and eafy as foon as the fait begins to
fhoot, for fear the fait fhould flick to the copper, which a great
fire will caufe it to do, and fo burn it; which often happens to
thofe that do not take fuch precaution.
This reafon ought to oblige thofe who work in this art to
procure veffels well lined with lead, fuch as they ufe to boil alum
in j befides, thefe leys, being fharp and corroding, deftroy and
confume the brafs by degrees, or the moifture cankers it, and
fd it fpoils the colour and beauty of the fait.
The fait, being well drained, mult be pat into little wooden
tubs or fats, the better to dry out all the moifture, according to
the feafon wherein it was made; then beat it grotty, and put it
into a furnace moderately heated, there gently to dry. It being
thus, take it out of the furnace and pound it in a ftone mortar,
or grind it in a mi::, and afterwards fift it through a fine fieve,
the holes whereof are not bigger than grains of wheat: This fait,
Being thus prepared, ought to be kept in a dry and convenier.
place, where there is no duft.
POMEGRANATE bkjJom\ to colour this, lay on minium,
vermilion, and carmine, and Imifh with carmine.
Let the green be verditer and mafticote, and fhade with iris.
Giacomo PONTE da Bajfaw il Vecchlo, was fcholar to his fa-
ther Bonifacio, ftudied Titian and Parmegiano ; born in the
year 1510, lived at Baffano and Venice, excelled in hiftory,
animals, landfcapes, and portraits; died in 1502^ aged 82 year ;.
1 J POR-