Part 25 (2/2)

_Imbibe_, to drink in, to absorb

Of what are Candles made?

Of Tallohich means animal fat melted and clarified, that is, cleansed or purified from filth Tallow is procured from many animals, but the most esteemed, and the oats, deer, bears, &c; some of which tallows or fats are used inleather; others in the manufacture of candles, &c For the last-mentioned article, that of sheep and oxen is most used; candles of a better sort are likewiseby means of a wick of cotton or rush, placed in the centre of the tallohich isthe foretable Tallow?

Yes; China possesses a tree producing a substance like our tallow, of which the Chinese make their candles; this tallow is extracted fro a white pulp which surrounds it In America, likewise, there is a shrub, a native of the temperate parts, especially towards the sea-side, the seeds of which contain a waxy substance used for the sa; this shrub is a species of reat size

_Extracted_, drawn from

What is Spermaceti?

A whitish, flaky, unctuous substance, prepared from an oil of the sauished fro teeth, and a hunch on its back

_Flaky_, having the nature of flakes

What is Wax?

A soft, yellow, concrete etables by the bee, of which this industrious and useful insect constructs its cell

Wax forms a considerable article of trade; it is of two kinds, the yellow and the white; the yellow is the native wax as it is taken from the hive, and the white is the same washed, purified, and exposed to the air

_Concrete_, grown together, solid

What Tree produces the beautiful and well-knoood sothe various articles of household furniture?

The Mahogany Tree, growing in Arows in the crevices of rocks, and other places of the sa furniture till near the end of the seventeenth century A London physician had a brother, the captain of a West India shi+p, who, on his return to England, having on board several logs of any for the purpose of ballast,project; his carpenter, however, threw it aside, observing that it was too hard to be wrought So in want of a box to hold candles, the cabinet-maker was directed to make it of this wood; he also made the sa urged, however, to th succeeded; when the box was polished, the beautiful color of the as so novel, that it becaany had been used partially in the West Indies for shi+p-building, but this new discovery of its beauty soon brought it into general use forfurniture

_Crevice_, a rent, a crack

_Ballast_, the heavy matter placed in the hold of a vessel to keep it steady

What is India Rubber or Caoutchouc?

An elastic, resinous substance, produced fro abundantly at Cayenne, Quito, and other parts of South America; and also in soe, straight, and about sixty feet high There is, however, a shboring islands