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Smith, G. / The laboratory; or, School of arts: containing a large collection of valuable secrets, experiments, and manual operations in arts and manufactures, highly useful to gilders, jewellers, enamellers, goldsmiths, dyers, cutlers, pewterers, joiners, japanners, book-binders, plasterers, artists, and to the workers in metals in general; and in plaster of paris, wood, ivory, bone, horn, and other materials
(1799)
Part XII. On the nightingale and canary-bird; with notices of a few other singing-birds, p. 337
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fHE NIGHTINGALE 311
such means, advance and grow more perfect, till you have
obtained a true and experienced knowledge; and are be-
tome master of the art.
Receipt for the Etck-ground, or Varntish.
TAKE three ounces of asphaltum, powdered and sifted;
two ounces and an half of virgin-wax; half an ounce of
frankincense, and half an ounce. of nut-oil, melted toge
ther.
PART XII.
ON THE
JGHTINGALE AND CANARY.BIb
WITH NOTIM OF A SEW OTHER SNGIN.G BluI.
r will be needless to enter upon a serious panegyrlc on
the charming notes of these melodious songsters, or
to describe the symmetry of their form and beauty of their
features: the delight and satisfaction they bestow upon
their keepers, render them the daily subjects of our praise.
4i treating of these birds, we shall begin with the
"' VOL,. 1. z N IGH r.
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