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[[left margin]] Counterfeit Coral. [[/left margin]]
To make Coral Branches, for embellishing of Grottos.
     Take clear Rosin, dissolve it in a brass-pan; to one ounce thereof add two drachms of the finest vermillion; when you have stirred them well together, and have chose your twigs and branches, peeled and dried, take a pencil and paint these twigs all over, while the composition is warm, and shape them in imitation of natural coral of Black Thorn; when done, hold it over a gentle coal-fire; turn the branches with your hand about, and it will make it all over smooth and even, as if polished. In the same manner you may, with white lead, prepare white, and with lamp black, black Coral.

[[left margin]] Artificial Grotto, how made for little expence. [[/left margin]]
     A beautiful Grotto may be built at a very little expence with glass cinders, which may easily be had, pebbles or pieces of large flint, and embellish it with such counterfeit coral, [[underlined]] amber [[/underlined]], (v.p.17.) pieces of looking glass, oyster shells, mussel, and snail shells, moss, pieces of chalk, oar, &c. The cement to bind them together is as follows.

[[left margin]] A Cement. Also, the flower of Sulphur may be omitted. [[vertical line setting apart next section of margin]] To mend broken China & Glasses. [[/end of set apart section]] Anoint the edges with the juice from a few cloves of garlic, beaten in a mortar, and the stick them together, which will cement better than by any other method. [[/left margin]]
 
Take two parts of white rosin, melt it clear, add to it four parts of Beeswax; when melted together, add stone-flower, of the stone you design to cement, two or three parts, or so much as will give the cement the Colour of the stone; to this add one part of flower of sulphur; first incorporate all together over a gentle fire, and afterwards knead it with your hands in warm water. With this, cement the stones after they are well dried and have been warmed before the fire, in order to receive the cement the better. General Mag. Feb. 1764. p. 88. See the Complete Dictionary of Arts & Sciences under the word [[underlined]] Cement. [[/underlined]]

[[left margin]] A Cure for the Gravel. or Stone. Vide. p. 21. also Vol. II. .p. 12 [[/left margin]]
     Oister shells (the older the better) burnt till all perfectly white: One pound of the Ashes dissolved in 12[[superscript]]#[[\superscript]] of Soft warm water by often shaking or stirring it & standing 36 or 48 hours to settle. Half a pint of this Lime water lukewarm & a little milk or cream in it taken fasting & at night just after, at first, 3 or 4 Pills of Castle Sope; [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] after sometime the pills may be increased to as many as the person can well bear. This, in time, will certainly cure the Gravel ^[[insertion]] or Stone. [[/insertion]] in either Sex. [[right inset]]Dr. Whytt's method, in Vol. 22. of Gents Mag. 1752. p.573, is to use 7 or 8.# of water to 1# of calcined oysters. & he gives 4 pints a day to a man, and 2 for a boy of 8 years old. [[\right inset]]

[[left margin]] Violent bleeding, how stopp'd. [/left margin]
     [[underlined]] Fungus maximus rotundus [[/underlined]], The larg Spongey mushroom, gathered when dusty & kept for use, will Stop any bleeding whatever, by only applying a little bit of it to the wound & binding it pretty hard thereon. A Sponge will in some measure answer the same end.

[[left margin]] Glass Stained. [[/left margin]]
     Oyl of Spike mixed with any Colour, and Glass finely painted therewith, presently dries, penetrates the Glass & leaves it transparent. Philos. Trans. No. 245. Vol.I. p. 207. of Jones's Abridgmt.

[[left margin]] Right Ascen. Decl. &c. of N. Pol * and Alioth for 216 Years. V. p. 111 & 112. [[/left margin]]
I have not only Calculated but Corroberated by a triple operation the Right Ascension, Declination, & the Angle formed by the Circle of Latitude & Meridian passing thro' The 

[[table: left column lists various years for which these calculations are. All of other columns are divided by vertical drawn lines (given in transcription as a /), with headings as follows:
Longitudes / Latitudes/ Rig[[superscript]]t[[\superscript]]. Ascensi./ Declinations/ Angle of Circ. of Lat. & Merid.]]

[[title of left column of table]] North Pole Star, in the year { [[/title]]
 1693 / II 24º..17'..11"  / 66..4..11n. / 8º..20'..46"   / 87º..40'..33"N. / 77..24..34
 1765 / II 25..17..11 / 66..4..11N. / 11..5..46½ / 88..3..12N. / 74..35..15½
 1837 / II 26..17..11 / 66..4..11N. / 14..57..56  / 88..26..31N. / 71..40..4

[[title in left column of table]] Alioth in the g.[[superscript]]rt[[\superscript]] Bear's Tail in the y.[[superscript]] r [[\superscript]]{ [[/title]]
 1693 / M 4..33..55 / 54..20..16N. / 190..7..59  / 57..22..16N. / 42..17..11
 1765 / M 5..33..55 / 54..20..16N. / 190..56..10 / 57..16..30N  / 42..9..2
 1837 / M 6..33..55 / 54..20..16N  / 191..43..55 / 57..10..18N. / 42..0..21

[[this entry set off slightly by space and not included in either left column heading bracket]] 
 1772 / M 5..39..45 / 54..20..16N  / 191..00..58,76 / 57..14..13,65 /

Transcription Notes:
In table, "II" represents Gemini on an eliptical plane. "M" is the closest approximation possible for the symbol denoting Virgo. Both are common astronomical signs. I believe the symbols for degrees, feet and inches are headers for the three columns for numbers in each of the Longitudes, Right Ascension and Declinations columns, but I don't know how to express that in the transcription. &c = archaic way of writing etc. The British used the apothecaries system which consisted of pounds and ounces for liquid measure. The amounts are slightly different than our current measurements. I think the symbol # represents ounces.