Museum Rusticum Et Commerciale (Volume 2); Or, Select Papers on Agriculture, Commerce, Arts, and Manufactures

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1764. Excerpt: ... BOUNTIES. To Mr. Rocque, of Walham-Green, sor the improved cut. ture of burnet, 5 O To Mr. Benjamin Moore, of Newgate Street, sor the manufacture of embossed paper, jo OQ To Mr, Thomas Keyse, sor the discovery of his method of painting in fixed crayons, 31 10 o To Mr.Ringrose, sor his contrivance of a ploughsor turning up heath ground, and of ahorse thistle cutter, 10 10 o To Mrs. Mary Whiteside, sor her invention of making lace with knitting needles, 10 10 O To Mr. Carter, sor his attempt in making a substitute sor borax, icl, 1. I. Wt I I.»J I » '. -. I I. % NUMBER CXI. To the Editors of the Museum Rusticum, Gentlemen, Tf the under-written will be of any service to the public,.J. pray insert it in your collection. A jhort Dissertation on Marie. IT is taken out of the bowels of the earth at several depths, is of divers colours as aster named, and some sorts, have often two or three colours intermixed. It is unctuous, of a slippery nature, and in goodness pure; soon relents aster rain, and, when dry, slackens like lime, and at last dissolves into the finest powder, I intend to leave with you some specimens of two kind of marie (which you may give to the gentlemen or farmers who desire them): they are what I have collected in Middlesex, which county abounds with good marie; but it is not used by the gentry, orTarmers, so much as it ought, because they have so readily dung, soot, ashes, and other composts, from London. 5 la Jn order to discover marie, the best way is to use the auger, and observe the strata taken up from time to time by it. I have sound, aster I have got through the surface, which is about a spade and half deep, that the next earth was a very strong, coarse, bed of clay, five or fix seet deep; asterwards, getting through it, the ...