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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

Saucissons are of two sorts, eyther to be placed upon a frame, or such
like, and so to bee discharged with a trayne of gunpowder, or else to
bee discharged out of the morter-peece. The standing Saucisson is thus
made; you must roll paper or canvas, nine or ten times upon a roller as
A, B, and choake the one end of it: fill it then with whole gunpowder,
and then choake the other end also, then cover all the Saucisson with
cord, and glew it over; then pierce one end of it, and prime it with a
quill filled with gunpowder dust; place it upon a forme having a hole
for the quill to passe thorough; then fire it by a traine of gunpowder
layd under the frame, it will give a report like a canon: marke the
figure F F.

[Illustration]

         _How to make the flying Saucisson to be delivered out
                         of the morter peece._

Make a coffin for this, as you did for the former; first, fill it
almost with whole gunpowder, then put upon that gunpowder dust, which
you must ramme hard into the coffin, so that it may bee one finger
thicke; then choake it close, and arme, and prime it as you did the
former. It is represented by the figure, K M.

[Illustration]

                      _How to make a fire sword._

You must make a sword of woode, having a deepe channell in the backe of
it, wherein place first a Rocket for the ground; then two or three
serpents upright; (with their mouthes inward) let the stoupell that
primeth the Rocket come under the mouth of the serpents, so that being
kindled, it may set them on fire, and enter the breech of the next
rocket, so fill the channell quite full with rockets and serpents,
binde the rockets fast into the channell, but the serpents must be
placed so, that being once fired, they may fly out of the channell, and
it is made: mark the figure G, P.

[Illustration]

               _The description and making of three sorts
                            of Fire-lances._

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