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To Make Turpentine Soap

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thoroughly boiled, and are very sharp. It is

Cut up 3 pounds brown soap and melt it in 7 thoroughly, and then pounded or crushed. quarts water, then put it in a stone pot and After this, it should be placed in a bowl or ald 9 table-spoonfuls spirits of turpentine and kettle, and a small cannon ball should be used 6 of alcohol. to pulverize it; when thoroughly pulverized

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