Part 12 (1/2)

What is Cayenne Pepper?

The dried fruit of a plant called bird pepper, a native of both Indies It is ent than the other sorts

CHAPTER VII

GLass, MIRRORS, EARTHENWARE, PORCELAIN, NEEDLES, PINS, PAPER, PRINTING, PARCHMENT, AND VELLUM

What is Glass?

A transparent, solid, brittle, factitious body, produced by fusing sand with an alkali The essential ingredients of glass are silex and potash, or soda; a few other substances are sometimes added Silex is found nearly pure in rock crystal, flint, and other varieties of quartz; for the lass in this country, it is generally obtained from sand, especially the white sand of New Jersey

_Factitious_, made by art, not found in a state of nature

What is Potash?

The salinewater to pass through them; the water imbibes the salt, which is then obtained from it by evaporation When purified by calcination, it is termed pearlash In countries where there are vast forests, as in Ae scale

What can you say of the origin of Glass?

The period of its invention is quite unknown Pliny relates that some merchants, driven by a store fire on the sand to dress sorew there in great abundance; an i of the sand and ashes together This production was picked up by a Syrian reat beauty, exain, and, after many attempts, succeeded in its manufacture

Who was Pliny?

A celebrated Roman naturalist and historian

At what place was Glass first made?

Solass and glass-houses; but others lass-houses noticed in history were built at Tyre; which, they add, was the only place where glass was es It is certain that the art was known to the Egyptians

What is Phenicia?

A sub-division of Syria in Asia

What is an author?

A person rites a book

What is signified by a glass-house?