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27 [margin left] How to make Tutenag; a metal like Silver; White copper; & the Chinese Packsong. [margin right] Light of the Stars depend upon our Sun. Zodiacal Light, what? U.Dr. Gregory's Astrono. Book II. prop. VIII. Scholium p. 288. VOP.I. [Troperest?] time of observing it. A conjecture about what it is. Rain and Dew what each is, and their difference. Attempt to find the Longitute by the Moon's Anomaly. [main text] Two parts of tin and one of bismuth form Tutenag. Ten Ounces of lead, six of bismuth, and four drachms of regulus of antimony, form a hard close-gramed metal, as white as silver. Copper and tin foiled together in a solution of tarter, or of tart, alum, and salt, the copper will acquire a thin coating from the tin. The Chinese metal, called packsong, is composed of copper, nicknel, and Zink. Critical Review, June 1789. p.415.