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FT"O point out faults; yet never to offend,
£ 'o play the critic, yet preserve thefriend, -
A life well ffent, that never loft a day,
An rafy spirit, innocently gay,
A drift integrity, devoid of art,
The sweetest manners, and fincerert heart, ;;
A foul, where depth of sense and fancy meet,,
A judgment brighten'd with the beams of wit,
Were ever yours; be what you were before;
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Fifthly, To cbryfalize the S^ltfrtre.
Havin 6 \any kindot a vessel, either of metal,
wood, &c. typovidedrit is large enough; at the
provincial works they have Imall tubs that will
Contain about three gallons each ; the liquor
prepared for chryilalizing by the former part of
the process is drawn ocfof the dander by the
tap into these tubs as long is it~will run tole
rably clear, filling them about two thirds full,
then fet'thefe tubs in a can) cellar and let them
remain'there twentv-foer hows at lead, if it
has been toiled fuflicientfy the falt-petre will be
formed into beautiful chrvftuls, but somewhat
foul; pour off tire liquor that remains, and let
the tubmen cue ed, e to drain; this liqudr is
called the mother of lye, : and thoull be returned
into the kettle with your next boiling, or may ft .
be further bailed down by itfelf and let out to #
chryftalize again,asit is verythong of falt-petre;
rifthere should be no falt-petre fettled in your
tubs after Landing the time directed, it is . lign
your liquor h*sno't been boiled enough, there
fore you Should return it again into the kettle, I
and boil it about one half away, proceeding as
has been already directed to feparat the lea
salt, &c.
Sixthly, Of th: Refining.
When ^trhaVea fu'mcient.quantity of nitre
inade, you may proceed te refine it, which is
performed thus : Pur your nitre into a boiler
that will hold about one third more than your
quantity of nitre, add as much water as will co
ver the whele mass bifcinch, after irhas soaked „
threughit, put it on a gentle fire, keep continu- :
ally flirting it quite to the bottom till the falt
petre is all difloived, take off the foul feum as
^ rises, which you mud continue to do as long
as any appears, when the feum has nearly done
fifing, the sea fait must be tak^n from the bottom
of the kettle with the skimmer, and which is
nearly one iixth part of the falt-petre; it will
be proper far you to taste this as. you take it
out of the kettle, a; you will be apt to be de
ceived by its appearance while wet, by its re
semblance to the wet nitre which you have in
the kettle to refine, but it is readily didinguiih
cd from it by the taftc.
When you have t^ken albthe sea salt out of
th' 'k< tt!e, put into the liquor while a-boiling,
about o.n'-quarter of an ounce of powdered hl
him tor every tj@ty five poundsof salt- >etre, c
and in proportion tor any etho quantity, it will
occasion i< to boil violently and a great torii :
feum to rife, take off Fee toulnefi, and have
fame cool water ar hand to add to prevent the
liquor from boiling over, whth it would other
wite do; 'you mull continue rhe boiling adhtie
while after the addition of the allum, then take
the kettle Oft the fire, cover it over with a coarie
wet linen cloth, and lay a cover of boards over
thar let it in a cool place in a cellar, &c. where
itmuf remain about two or three days, then
pnur off the liquor, or mother he, and drain it
from the mh-petre by setting the kettle an edge,
when it is drained tunrthe kettle bottom vp
wards for to 'get your falt-petre obt, which will.
by this time to<m itfeli into ariutadfome cake,if
Pis not fulhciently refined this time, repeat this
sixth part of th" process over again, and you
will hwe it fufEciently fine for any purpofr,
then put your cakeon a heap of dry ash. s, which
will imbibe and draw off all the moidure that .
remained in the cake, if not, renew the ashes till
itdoes. This .concludes the whole business of
extracting and refining falt-petre fit for the pow
der maker, as it is prA&fed at the Provincial
Works. r
/'SOHe foregoing process lias alreadyfoad the
, experience of many in the province, and
particularly in Philadelphia, and the town of #
"York. It is dimple, and maybe p^adifed in fa
milies without any additional expense of fuel,
or even of labour as it only requires the- over
sight of any person in the evening after the
work of the day is concluded. The process is
described with fitch exaanefs,theCommittee have
•reason to think few or none will fail in the un-'
dertaking, but if that fbould sometimes be the
.case, in the firfl attempt, from too little attention
to the dire&ion given, a fccond would doubtless
Succeed.
The Assembly of this province have granted
a premium of ^§ 1. per hundred weight, which
is ft, per pound, for all falt-petre made in this
province,and thrown into the public magazines;
and the Committee of Safety, through whole
hands the premium is to pais, do hereby, for
the next three months, leave it in the option of
the makers of this article to receive one' fourth
of rhe weight thereof in gun-powder, io be de
livered to the several perlons appointed to take
in the falt-pefre in the different Counties with
in thb province, the names of whom will be
published soon.
Ine Committee need not remark to any in
teFij,nt and fer.fihle man in the province the
indilpenfible necessity there is of indantly pro
viding ourselves with a large quantity of gun
powder, when the quarrel between the mother
country add the colonies is drawing to a hasty ।
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THS
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decifior/by arms, when the minidry ffirelten to
overwhelm us theenfuing year, with numerous
mercenary soldiers, brought even from the mod
distant and barbarous nation in Europe; ata
time too, when from the wicked vigilance and
industry of this ministry, every court in Europe
has been" fciicited and prevailed on so far, to aid •
their designs against our liberties, as to refute.
felling us either arms or ammunition. But
than^ to Almighty Odd, we have those means
and resources within ourselves, which if net
fnamefully neglected and overlooked, Will con
found all their artifices and conspiracies; the
principal ofthefe is 'the knowledge of miking
falt-petre, by which we may, in a very short
time, nf.it be practised by every family in the
country, who are ferrounded with^abundant ma
terials for the purpose, be relieved from the ne
ceflity of depending upon a : precarious supply
of gun-powder, purchased at a ruinous expellee
in foreign countries.
That this is not a fallacious representation br
^ deceitful hope, held out to the people, will
appear from this consideration, that five pounds
of falt-petre, which may be made in as many
days, produced from 20,crop families, would
afford a dock of gun-powder so" a large array,
leavinga fufficiency for cannon both for forts
and batteries, and for the field.
The Committee, 'in this publication, hold
out every motive to invite their countrymen so
this undertaking,' that can. possibly engage the
human heart. There is the love of the public
good, which they doubt not, fully polishes al
wolf every breast; there is filtered; fhoulc these ^
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to engage in any work, that has the appearance
of novelty; there is the love of plealure, which -
among IpOrtfmen, can be gratified at present in
no other way, but by a criminal breach of a
regulation dilated by felf-evident necessity.
The Committee, '-from these considerations,
cannot entertain a doubt of extracting immedi
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a tree people more valuable than the mines erf
P^u or Mexico to their possessors, it is affording
them a certain mentis of defending their natural
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