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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

_The description and making of two sorts
                            of Fire-clubs._

To make the first you must make an ovall ball of paste-bord, canvasse,
or parchment glewed together, which you must first fill with a slow
composition, ram it in, and then bore divers holes round about it, and
put therein serpents, fire bals, or what you will: fasten it upon a
staffe, and prime it in the top with a cane filled with a slow
composition: this is represented by the figure A, A.

[Illustration]

To make the second you must fill divers canes open at both ends (and of
a foot long, or more, or lesse, as you think fit) with a slow
composition, and binde them upon a staffe of foure or five foot long;
prime them so that one being ended, another may begin: you may prime
them with a stouple or match (prepared as before) make an osier basket
about it with a hole in the very top to fire it by, and it is done.

The figure F, F, representeth the staffe, with the canes bound upon it.
The figure marked G, representeth the staffe having a basket wrought
over it.

                      _How to make a Fire-target._

Make a Target of osier twigs, or else of light wood, & binde it upon it
divers canes filled with a very slow composition: the canes must bee
open at both ends, and primed with stouple, that one may give fire unto
another: in the midst of all you may set up a large cane also, if you
please, which you may fill with the same composition as you did the
others. Mark the figure L, M, N, O.

[Illustration]

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                      Of Fire-works for the water.


                  _How to make Rockets for the water._

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