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TAKE Virginia leaf tobacco, dry it well and make it into a high flavoured snuff, to this add one twelfth part of the finest roseate rappee, and a small quantity of the real maccabaw; of betony, eye-bright, marjoram, thyme-syriac, flowers of marum-syriac, equal quantities, dried and reduced to a fine powder; to these add one twentieth part of the leaves of assari, dried and powdered, also of cloves dried fully and powdered one fiftieth part; the essential oils of cinnamon, nutmegs, lavender, and balsam of Peru, of each a small quantity; mix these well together with the snuff, and put the whole into an earthern pan, pressing it very close together. After it has stood four days, add thereto eau de luce in the proportion of one ounce to every pound of the above snuff, together with orange-flower, lavender, and rose waters, just sufficient to make the whole a little moist. Then put it into bottles for use; of this a pinch may be taken at any time for the complaints mentioned.

, Receipt for making.

FOR one leach tub of ashes, take half a bushel of lime—after having well covered the bottom of the leach with straw and sticks, put first a bushel of ashes, then two quarts of lime, upon which pour boiling water, to slake the lime; continue to fill the leach in this manner. For each barrel of soap, take twenty-eight pounds of clean grease, and three pounds of rosin; melt them together with two pails full of the lie first drawn from the leach—when it has boiled half an hour, pour it into the barrel and fill it up with lie as fast as it can be drawn, stirring it well as the lie is added.