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Black Ink (Campeachy logwood chips pounds)

Campeachy logwood chips, 3 pounds; bruised galls, 9 pounds; boil in water, and to the mixed liquors add gumarabic and green copperas, of each 4 pounds; to produce 16½ gallons of ink. Quality very good, but inferior to the above.

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