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two or three months in the air, during the summer; and, when quitedry, are to be properly shaved and weighed for sale.The shavings which come off' these halls are to be kept for the nextmanufacture of wash-balls of the same sort. They are to be mixedwith the red soap-powder, mentioned above,- but, in such a case,there is no occasion to put so much vermilion as before; as, thereby,too high a colour would be produced. As to the perfume to be usedfor these wash-balls, the manufacturer must vary it according totaste, fancy, or the price he intends to sell his commodity for; re-membering that it is to be mixed with the liquid starch previous toincorporation with the layers of soap and powder.Inferior Marbled Balls. Take Ibxx of the best curdy tallow-soap,shave it thin, and mix with it ibiv of the composition for camphorwash-balls. Beat the whole, without any water, to a fine and even-coloured paste, which will be very white. Now make this up intocakes of about an inch thick, and set them in the air to dry. Cutthese cakes, when hard, into squares and triangles, as before, in thecase of Joppa, or oil-soap, for the groundwork of the wash-balls tobe manufactured. Now take ftiv of oil-soap, Ibij of the colouredpowder used for the best marbled balls, and ibij of starch-grounds.Shave the soap, and proceed in every other respect as before. Thesewash-balls are to be scented with some cheap perfume, because theyare designed to be sold for about half the price of the best sort ;though, in appearance, they are so beautiful, and in quality so excel-lent as often to be sold for as much money as the best.Figured Wash Balls. These wash-balls, though troublesome to make,answer very well to surprise and please: they also may be made quiteas good as any other.Take fcxvij of the best and whitest Genoa soap, shave it fine, and mixwith it ftiij of the composition for camphor balls. Beat the wholeinto a fine even paste, with rose water. Now have ready four or fivedifferent colours, in powder, viz., a dark and a pale green, two reds,two blues, a yellow, and a brown. Then divide the paste into as manyparts as there are colours at hand; and beat and mix each very inti-mately with its separate colour, so that the several masses may haveno streaks, spots, or irregularities of hue, but may be entirely homo-geneous ; in doing which, it is necessary to be very clean and nice.When the coloured masses are pretty stiff", roll them out into cakeson a marble slab, to about a quarter of an inch thickness; then, withtin stamps, cut them out into the shapes of birds, beasts, sun, moon,stars, &c. &c; always observing to match the colour of the paste tothe form of the stamp; viz., the quadrupeds to be generally brown ;the birds to be green, or otherwise, as may be proper; the sun,