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The Acid of Vitriol, yea the Vitriolic Acid, doeth that which is required
of it, in that it giveth the black colour: so I understand that:
but it faileth, in that it will not dry — I will tell thee, in what manner
thou shalt make it dry; so at least it seemeth likely unto me.
When thou hast forced it out of the wood, yea out of the pores of
the wood, as much as may be, by the heat of fires, then shalt
thou apply thereunto a few drops of the fixed vegetable Alkali in
a weak solution: peradventure it will reach the whole of that which is
contained in within the pores of the wood, and neutralize it, that is cause it
no longer to be Vitriolic Acid, but that other thing, which upon turning
to the tables thou mayest see — Is it not written in the book of
the tables which I have given thee, that thou shouldst learn them
As thy soul liveth, it will netralize, every part thereof whereunto
it reacheth. Can the Allicopdan change his skin or the leopard his
spots? Verily I say unto thee the black colour, once taken, shall not
depart from it, yea it shall not depart from the stick, untill that
stick shall be no more

Thou askest of me more bent tubes — O thou of little faith! Hast thou
tried any of those that thou has, together with the rest of the
the moving and the corks, and the glass necks that are to
go in the corks, and the athaners that are to go in the same, and
the store-phials that are to fit upon the glass necks by leather?
Hast thou tried all these things? then wherefore is it that thou dost
not tell me?

What chuckle heads some people are to give themselves the world and
all of trouble, and make me pay eight pence for nothing? as if the same
people who made the head could not put it on. O Samuel, thou and
a pin have heads, tho' my poor stick has none ! Give me thy head,
to put upon my stick; for it will well befit it.

Pshaw — here's the scrap of a letter has been lying in my Cabinet
any time this 4 or 5 days, and won't finish itself if I wait till Doomsday
I wish the cat could do it for me you should have her for a correspondent

Identifier: | JB/537/288/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 537.
Date_1	1774-06-09	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	537	Main Headings
Folio number	288	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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