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A beautiful Foil for precious or
false Stone w ch [which] exceeds all others.

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Cut a Piece of Pewter as
thick as the back of a knife exactly
the Size of the Stone + put it into the
Setting, put upon it some good [punfeu?]
Quicksilver, + it will stick set the Stone
upon this just to [saithety?] + the Stone
will have a beautiful [keeske?], the
Quicksilver will be even upon the
Pewter. Foil.

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13.
To bleach Linnen very well
+ soon

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wash it in warm water , +
then dip it in a good deep Pot

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Kareobl almost 4 years ago

Quicksilver is mercury.

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