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Ordinary Carriage Varnish
add 2 pounds boiled oil, and let the whole Sorted gum anime, 8 pounds; clarified oil, 3 boil for 2 hours over a slow coal fire. When gallons; litharge, 5 ounces; dried and pow- dissolved, add again 6 pounds boiled linseed dered sugar of lead and white copperas, of oil and 1 pound litharge, and boil until an each 4 ounces; boil as last, and thin with oil even liquid is obtained. It is applied warm, of turpentine, 5 gallons. and forms a waterproof coating.