pungent and soapy to the feel, it should be removed from the fire and strained through cloth. The filtrate[1] being thrown away, the strained fluid should be again boiled. From this alkaline solution take three quarters of a seer."
Rendering the Alkali Caustic
"Then take eight palas each of Banduc nut, burnt limestone, conch shells, and bivalve shells and beat them in an iron pan till they are of the colour of fire. Then moisten them in the same vessel with the above-mentioned three-quarters of a seer of alkaline water and reduce them to powder. This powder should be thrown on sixty-four seers of the alkaline water and boiled with constant and careful agitation by the ladle. Care should be taken that the solution is neither too thick nor thin."
How to Store up the Alkali
"When reduced to proper consistence, the solution should be removed from the fire and poured into an iron jar. The opening or mouth of
- ↑ This is evidently a mistake. According to the original text, it should be "the dregs" i. e. the precipitate.
