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The Mysteryes of Nature and Art: Conteined in foure severall Tretises, The first of water workes, The second of Fyer workes, The third of Drawing, Colouring, Painting, and Engraving, The fourth of divers Experiments, as wel serviceable as delightful: partly Collected, and partly of the Authors Peculiar Practice, and Invention — John Shaqi

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The Mysteryes of Nature and Art: Conteined in foure severall Tretises, The first of water workes, The second of Fyer workes, The third of Drawing, Colouring, Painting, and Engraving, The fourth of divers Experiments, as wel serviceable as delightful: partly Collected, and partly of the Authors Peculiar Practice, and Invention

Name: The Mysteryes of Nature and Art: Conteined in foure severall Tretises, The first of water workes, The second of Fyer workes, The third of Drawing, Colouring, Painting, and Engraving, The fourth of divers Experiments, as wel serviceable as delightful: partly Collected, and partly of the Authors Peculiar Practice, and Invention
Author: Bate, John

Bate, John

Art -- Early works to 1800; Fireworks -- Early works to 1800; Science -- Early works to 1800; Waterworks -- Early works to 1800

rowler and all through the sayd hollow body of the Former; put then the
broach of the formers breech into the hole of the rowler, and with a
peece of strong packthred choake the coffin within halfe an inch of the
rowlers end (which you may do best, and with most ease, if you first
dip the end of the coffin into fayre water, so that it may be wet quite
through) after you haue choaked the coffin, you must thrust the breech
of the former, the coffin also with the rowler in it, up into the body
of the former: then pin the breech fast to the body of the former with
the pin, and on the rowler giue one stroak or two with a mallet
lightly, then unpin the breech, and with the rowler thrust the coffin
out of the bottom of the former, lay it by untill the end be dry. Thus
you may at leisure times make diuers coffins ready to use upon any
occasion. The following figure expresseth an empty coffin.

[Illustration]

Take one of these coffins, put it into the Former, and take the
composition for middle-sized rockets (mentioned before) and put thereof
spoonfull after spoonfull, untill you haue filled the coffin unto the
top of the former, after the putting of euery second spoonfull into the
coffin, with a mallet giue two or three blowes upon the head of the
rammer, that the composition may bee well rammed into the coffin: euery
third or fourth driuing M. _Norton_ wisheth (if the rockets are to be
fired in three or foure dayes) to dip the rammer in gum-dragant, and
camphir dissolued in spirit of wine, or good _aquavitæ_: but if it will
bee a month before they will bee fired, then dip the rammer in oyle of
peter, or liquid varnish, and linseed oyle mixed together: If you would
haue the rocket to giue a report or blow, then within one diameter of
the top, driue a bottom of leather, or six or eight double of paper,
pierce and prime either of them through in three or foure places, and
fill the rest of the coffin with whole gunpowder; afterwards driue
another bottom of leather, and then with strong packthred choak the
coffin close unto it: then take the rocket out of the Former, and prime
it at the broach-hole with a peece of prepared stouple, and binde unto
it a straight rod 6 or 7 times the length of the rocket, and so heavy,
that being put on your finger, it may ballast the rocket within two or
three diameters of the same: mark the following figure, which
represents a rocket ready made and finished, A, B, the rocket, C, the
stouple that primeth it, D, E, F, the rod bound unto the rocket with
two strings, G, H, I, the hand that poyseth it.

[Illustration]

                        _How to make Serpents._

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