This must be removed by applying a little powdered alum,or, if this fail, it should be once or twice slightly touched with blue-stone, and afterwards dressed with calamine cerate.

This must be removed by applying a little powdered alum,or, if this fail, it should be once or twice slightly touched with blue-stone, and afterwards dressed with calamine cerate.

Nitre can be procured in the Cibao, that great storehouse which has specimens of almost every metal, salt, and mineral; borax at Jacmel and Dondon, native alum at Dondon, and aluminous earth near Port-au-Prince; vitriol, of various forms, in a dozen places; naphtha, petroleum, and asphaltum at Banique, and sulphur in different shapes at Marmalade, La Soufrière, etc.