A genuine account of the manner of making best Russia pot ashes / communicated to the editor by the late Sir Peter Warren.

  • Warren, Peter, Sir, 1703-1752.
Date:
1753
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A genuine account of the manner of making best Russia pot ashes / communicated to the editor by the late Sir Peter Warren. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    has been found by Experi¬ ence the Quantity of Afhes obtain’d from the Former are more than double the * Quantity produced from the Latter. Sifting the Ajhes. The Wood being thus burnt into Allies, they mull be well fifted thro’ two Sieves, one finer than the other. The fifted Allies mull be taken and put into tight fquare Brick Troughs, or Manner of prepar- wooden Backs, twenty or ing the Wood thirty in Number, about four Ajhes, and how Foot deep, cover’d with long they are to Water, and well marlh’d or lay. incorporated, where they mull lay four or five Months that they may thoroughly diflolve, putrify and attain their due Strength. Proper