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Inextinguishable Match
Take 4 parts dry nitre, 2 gunpowder, 2 charcoal, and 1 sulphur, and mix them; then ram the compound into paper cases 9 inches in length and of the thickness of a common quill.
When this composition is inflamed, rain will not extinguish it; the burning end of the match must be cut off to stay the fire.