068r - - - - - Fanciful tables
You can make various grooved compartments & on these, paint fishes naturally & with color on simple carton & if you wish, on silvered & burnished paper to represent the scales. And next, cover them with very clear lantern horn. You can apply the very same to other works.
Planting trees
One needs to plant them in a dry place dry weather, & plenty of earth gathered at the foot all around, like a mound, so that the rains do not fill the holes & drown the trees.
Casting
I have tried four kinds of sand for lead & tin: chalk, crushed glass, tripoli & burnt linen, all four excellent. But as for the chalk, it needs to be of the softest kind you can find, like the Champagne one that painters use. It releases very neatly, does not need to be moistened with magistra or anything else, but needs to be completely dry, in its natural state, finely pulverized. The first cast is always the neatest, however it will well withstand two or three. But there is only the first one that you need to take heed of, when you want to remake your box mold to take new powdered chalk that has not yet been used for works, for the one previously used in the box mold has dried out & has no stickiness & bond like the fresh one. Crushed glass can be made from common glass sand, however cristallin is more excellent, for common glass contains glass salt of saltwort only, but cristallin contains both salt of tartar & saltwort all together, which both help fusion, the glass once calcined & reduced to as if to its prime substance. In order to calcine it perfectly, throw your glass, lumps of whichever sort, among the largest possible lit charcoals that you can, if you are lacking some other tde foeut violent heat source. And when it will be well red, throw it into water.
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Putty is considered excellent for these two metals.
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