This section is from the book "The English And American Mechanic", by B. Frank Van Cleve. Also available from Amazon: The English And American Mechanic.
Fused glauber-salts, 11 lbs.; soaper's salts, 12 lbs.; waste soap-ashes, ½ bushel; silicious sand, ½ cwt.; glass-skimmings, 22 lbs.; broken green glass, 1 cwt. to 1¼ cwt.; basalt, 25 lbs. to ¼ cwt.
Pale sand, 100 lbs.; kelp, 35 lbs.; lixiviated wood ashes, 1½ cwt.; fresh, do., 40 lbs.; pipe-clay, ¾ cwt.; cul-h let, or broken glass, 1½ cwt.
No. 3. Yellow or white sand, 120 parts; woodashes, 80 parts; pearlashes, 20 parts; common salt, 15 parts; white arsenic, 1 part; very pale.
 
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