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“It is almost seventy years old and preserved in spirits of wine. I am afraid it will disintegrate if we remove it.”

The fuel used consisted exclusively of spirits of wine, the cocoa, or pemmican soup, being cooked in an iron pot over a shallow lamp with seven wicks.

What a panic seized me," he says himself, "when I saw the water under me like blue flames of burning spirits of wine!

To remedy this evil, spirits of wine are furnished to keepers, but does not wholly remove the difficulty.

The timber is used for making bedsteads, &c., while from the roots a dark transparent gum may be procured, which, when dissolved with spirits of wine, forms an excellent varnish.