The method and plain process for making pot-ash : equal, if not superior to the best foreign pot-ash published, in consequence of the late encouragement granted by Parliament for that purpose / By Thomas Stephens.

  • Stephens, Thomas, -1780.
Date:
[1755?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The method and plain process for making pot-ash : equal, if not superior to the best foreign pot-ash published, in consequence of the late encouragement granted by Parliament for that purpose / By Thomas Stephens. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    FIE numerous and expenlivc Attempts for making Pot-Afle in his Majefty’s American Dominions, though unfuccefsful ; and the Encouragements that have been given there, fufficiently evince the Utility of it, in the Britijh Plantations; as the late Reward and former In¬ dulgence of Parliament do the Importance of it to this Nation. My Attention to this Subject was long, expen live and painful, before I could bring the Commodity to its pre- fent Perfection; nor was the Oppoiition I encountered without Doors, on foliciting a public Conlideration for this Service, overcome without much Delay and Diffi¬ culty. And as the Views of particular Perfons do not always coincide with the filtered: of the Public; it is poffible that Circumftance, joined to the Envy of ano¬ ther’s Succefs, may ffill occafion fbme Endeavours to lel- fen the good EffeCts of a Delign, which every dffintereft- ed Friend to his Country mull; rejoice to fee fully accom- pliffied. This Undertaking however, it is hoped, will finally fucceed, from the Credit and Encouragement