The method and plain process for making pot-ash : equal, if not superior to the best foreign pot-ash published, in consequence of the late encouragement granted by Parliament for that purpose / By Thomas Stephens.

  • Stephens, Thomas, -1780
Date:
[1755?]
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Credit: The method and plain process for making pot-ash : equal, if not superior to the best foreign pot-ash published, in consequence of the late encouragement granted by Parliament for that purpose / By Thomas Stephens. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ ] APPENDIX II. ' i ON POT-ASHES. PROCESS FOR MAKING POT¬ ASHES-, WITH DIRECTIONS FOR PERFORMING IT WITH PROFIT BY PRIVATE FAMILIES WHERE WOOD IS PLENTIFUL¬ LY BURNT. 4 v * The Utenfils and Impliments neceffary for making Pot-Alii in fmailer Quantities i are- i Vats for diffolving the Salts ; which may either be round like Calks, or fquare. They may be made of the belt white Pine, or Cyprefs; and if they be round, they mull be well fecured with Iron PIoops; or, if fquare, with an oaken Frame. They may be about four or five Feet in depth; and of any Diameter or Width, according to the occafion there may be with rela¬ tion to the quantity of Wood-alhes for the making of the Pot-afh. Thefe Vats mufl have a kind of falfe Bottoms, formed by making a fort of Lattice-work, or Grate, by placing Boards with the Edge upwards, crofs each other*, fo that the Spaces, or Areas, betwixt them may be about five Inches