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343&#93; FUE «r from keeping the hoof* too hot, dry, and hard, the cure may be ted with ease and safety, by l.i ing asidi those shcx s ; wa the fi i after i scercisi dressing them with M t Egyptia- ni/if, prepared in the- following manner : Y ike 2 oz. o f verdi tm ly "pulverized j <;<■/.. o honey, and 4 Dt of vinegar : let the whole beboikd over a gentle fire, iill it acquires a reddish colour. Or, 2 ozi ot blue vitriol, dissolved in a quart of water, may be substituted for the preceding composition, if the hoofs be kept cool and moist. At the same lime, it will be requisite to have recourse to bleeding, and purging-medicines, which may be repeated two or three times at pro- per intervals ; or, to diuretics, which are pr ferable, as they may be con- tinued for some time, without confining the horse to the stable. FUEL is the aliment or food of lire. The fuel generally used in Britain is pit-coal : it is attended with considerable expence, that is not a litde increased by the enor- mous waste, arising from the inju- dicious manner in which the fires are usually managed. Hence dif- ferent compositions have been pro- posed, among which that contrived by Count RoiroEP more particu- larly eiaims our attention. It is know;: by the name of kindling- lalls, which are composed of equal parts of coal, charcoal, and. the two former are reduced to a fine powder, well mixed and knead- ed together with the clay moistened with water ; and then formed into balls of the size of hens eggs, which are thoroughly dried. These balls may be made so inflammable as in- stantly to take tire from the smallest spark, afier they have been dipped FUE [343 in a strong solution of nitre, and then dried. With those three in- gredients, Count lu- mi urn) is of opinion, that a certain proportion of straw, cut ery small, or of chaff, or ( vrn of saw-dust, mav be ad- vantageously incoi porated. — The excellence of the fuel tlms prepart d consists in its economy andcleanli- . circumstances of the utmost importance, and which are calcu- lated greatly to improve the apart- ments of the opulent : for, h ob- serves, " nothing is more dirty, inelegant, and disgusting, than a common coal lire." — The Count's invention is somewhat similar to the patent Coal-balls prepared by Mr. Fj&bim kick, of which wo have already given an account in p. 19. To this may be added, the im- proved fuel invented by Mr Peter Davey, to whom a patent was granted early in the year 1801. The substances he employs are, a mixed coke composed of pit-coal and charcoal, in various propor- tions, united previously to the ope- ration of coking. The patentee takes small sea-coal, to which he adds charcoal, saw-dust, tan, or any other materials that mav be converted into charcoal, in prop r- tionate quantities : these, however; are not specified, and he simply observes, that for furnaces, or other large fires, the quantity of sea-coal is to be increased ; and, when the fuel is intended to be binned in small fires, it is to be diminished. After mixing the different ingre- dients, they are to be dried in kiln*-', and heated so as to make them in- timately cohere, and expel the moisture and oily parts, without consuming the substance of the coal : in this state the fuel is tit for use. Z -i We