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or broken off, may be supplied with some of the stone powdered and mixed
with melted sulphur: but care must be taken to have both parts properly
heated.

MARBLE PAPER. For marbling books or paper, dissolve four ounces of gum
arabac in two quarts of water, and pour it into a broad vessel. Mix
several colours with water in separate shells: with small brushes
peculiar to each colour, sprinkle and intermix them on the surface of
the gum water, and curl them with a stick so as to form a variety of
streaks. The edges of a book pressed close may then be slightly dipped
in the colours on the surface of the water, and they will take the
impression of the mixture. The edges may then be glazed with the white
of an egg, and the colours will remain. A sheet of paper may be marbled
in the same way.

MARBLE STAINS. To take stains out of marble, make a tolerably thick
mixture of unslaked lime finely powdered, with some strong soap-ley.
Spread it instantly over the marble with a painter's brush, and in two
month's time wash it off perfectly clean. Prepare a fine thick lather of
soft soap, boiled in soft water; dip a brush in it, and scour the marble
well with powder. Clear off the soap, and finish with a smooth hard
brush till the stains are all removed. After a very good rubbing, the
marble will acquire a beautiful polish. If the marble has been injured
by iron stains, take an equal quantity of fresh spirits of vitriol and
lemon juice. Mix them in a bottle, shake it well, and wet the spots. Rub
with a soft linen cloth, and in a few minutes they will disappear.

MARBLE VEAL. The meat is prepared in the same way as potted beef or
veal. Then beat up a boiled tongue, or slices of ham, with butter, white
pepper, and pounded mace. Put a layer of veal in the pot, then stick in
pieces of tongue or ham, fill up the spaces with veal, and pour
clarified butter over it.

MARKING INK. Mix two drams of the tincture of galls with one dram of
lunar caustic, and for marking of linen, use it with a pen as common
ink. The cloth must first be wetted in a strong solution of salt of
tartar, and afterwards dried, before any attempt be made to write upon
it. A beautiful red ink may also be prepared for this purpose by mixing
half an ounce of vermillion, and a dram of the salt of steel, with as
much linseed oil as will make it of a proper consistency, either to use
with a pen or a hair pencil. Other colours may be made in the same way,
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