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Apparatus for making Pyrmont Water in
the large way.

For the purpose of agitation, a Barrel prepared
upon the principles of that commonly
used for churning Butter, might I should
think be employd. Some precautions in the making it would
be necessary, which I need not suggest to you.
If the Limi you think the Limit worth any thing, it were
easy to enlarge upon it.

Here the apparatus I have described would be
particularly convenient. Instead of the Mixing
Phial a large Stone Bottle of Jar to any size
might be employ'd. To this might be fitted
a larg flexible Athanor of a proportionable size
with a flexible neck For security the Athanor
and the tube of communication might
be wicker'd over.

The artificial Pyrmont water, Dr Fordyce
says tho' saturated, has not the equal pungency
with the natural. To make it equal It may be made to have
it, he says, by, putting into each bottle after it is filled
a grain or two of mild Magnesia or Calcareous
Earth, then dropping in a drop or two
of Vitriolic Acid as much as or rather less than may be supposed
sufficient to saturate it the earth then stop corking the

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Date_1	1774-??-??	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	537	Main Headings	Apparatus for making Pyrmont Water
Folio number	329	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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