Put into the steam cistern,10 galls of the dryd jelly,Made March 30. 1853,Make it hot by turning on the steam (low pressure will do),Add,10 galls of oil of the ½ & ½ tub ,/ NB this dried as well as boiled oil having stood over the dryers &c a good while without having had any fresh bottoms of raw oil lately put on it – so that it may be considered as so much boiled oil),10 galls of the strong dryd oil made on the 15th Inst. p. 334,Stirr all well together & gale intothis for canvass room sample in ..ia.,The browny opacity is owing to some of the oil of p. 334 having a portion of the dryer hanging in it and in the ½ & ½ oil out of tub a reddy tint was observable,This mixture by itself dries with a varnishy lustre - & was quite dry next morning after being rubbed on canvass over night – though of course with a slight tack,For the use of mixg the 1st colouring see next page ,