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PREFACE.
IT may appear something strange, that notwithstanding the numerous volumes hitherto published upon the different Arts, Sciences, and Manufactures, no practical account of Soap-making have as yet reached the eye of the Public. What this may be owing to, seem rather difficult to account for: it may be, that those few possessed of the secret, from a parsimonious, contracted, or selfish disposition, consider themselves
