When you load the heads of your rockets with stars, rains, serpents, crackers, scroles, or any thing else, according to your fancy; remember always to put one ladle-ful of meal powder, into each head, which will be enough to burst the head, and disperse the stars or whatever is contained therein: when the heads are loaded with any sort of cases, let their mouths be placed downwards; and after the heads are filled, paste on the top of them a piece of paper, before you put on the caps. As the size of stars often differ, it would be needless to give an exact number for each rocket, but this rule may be observed, that the heads may be nearly filled with whatever they are loaded. Of the Decorations for Sky Rockets. Sky rockets bearing the pre-eminence of all fireworks, it will not be improper to treat of their various kinds of decorations which are directed according to fancy; some are headed with stars of different sorts, such as tailed stars, brilliant stars, white stars, blue and yellow stars, &c. some with gold and silver rain; others with serpents, crackers, fire-scroles, marrons; and some with small rockets, and many other devices, as the maker pleases. Dimensions and Poise of Rocket Sticks. Weight | Length of |Thickness|Breadth |Square at| Poize from of the |the stick. | at top. | at top.| bottom. |the point of rocket.| | | | | the cone. -------+-----------+---------+--------+---------+------------- lb. oz.| ft. in. | Inches. | Inches.| Inch. | ft. in. -------+-----------+---------+--------+---------+------------- 6 0 | 14 0 | 1·5 | 1·85 | 0·75 | 4 1·5 4 0 | 12 10 | 1·25 | 1·40 | 0·625 | 3 9· 2 0 | 9 4 | 1·125 | 1· | 0·525 | 2 9· 1 0 | 8 2 | 0·725 | 0·80 | 0·375 | 2 1· 8 | 6 6 | 0·5 | 0·70 | 0·25 | 1 10·5 4 | 5 3 | 0·3750 | 0·55 | 0·35 | 1 8·5 2 | 4 1 | 0·3 | 0·45 | 0·15 | 1 3· 1 | 3 6 | 0·25 | 0·35 | 0·10 | 11 0· ½ | 2 4 | 0·125 | 0·20 | 0·16 | 8 0· ¼ | 1 10½ | 0·1 | 0·15 | 0·5 | 5 0·5