472. _To destroy Moths & preserve Cloths untouch’d._

Take the bear frame of a square table cover it over with such furniture

you mean to preserve you must let your furniture touch the ground at

the sides & ends of the frame to keep in the heat and vapor then take a

chaffendish of charcole or cole of wood fire and put thereon a quantity

of alloes sequetrina and a quantity of gallinger roots then put your

chaffendish in the midst of the frame and let it remaine there untill

y^e vapor be quite setled and the engredients consumed this absolutely

at once ordering will destroy all the moths bred in your furniture &

continually preserve such furnitures as is untouched.

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