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To make Good Shining Black Ink

Take two ounces of nut-galls in coarse powder; one ounce of wood in thin chips; one ounce of sulphate of iron; three fourths of an ounce of gum arabic; one fourth of an ounce of sulphate of copper; and one fourth of an ounce of loaf sugar. Boil the galls and logwood together in three pints of water, till the quantity is reduced to one half. Then the liquor must be strained through a flannel into a proper vessel, and the remainder of the ingredients be added to it. The mixture is then to be frequently stirred till the whole is dissolved; after which it must be left at rest for twenty-four hours. The ink may then be decanted from the gross sediment, and must be preserved in a glass bottle well corked.