Encyclopedia of Practical Receipts and Processes

How to silver a mirror, brew ginger beer, kill moths, make fireworks, tan a hide, bronze iron, cure a ham and clean a straw hat: William B. Dick's numbered encyclopedia answered the questions a nineteenth-century household actually had.

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Dutch Weights and Measures

6101. Swiss Money is reckoned in The following are the points in which Holland differs from the rest of the Netherlands. Dutch. 1 Foot 1 Ell 1 Corn last 1 Aam 1 Hoed English. =11+ Inches 27 " 10 qrs. 5+ Winchester Bushels =41 Imperial gallons = 5 Chaldrons 1 Freight last=4000 Pounds. 1 Ballast last=2000 Pounds

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