OAK.The juice of the oak mixed with vitriol forms a black ink; the galls ar employed for the same purpose.

All things being properly disposed for the grand operation, the vitriol furnace was set to work, which requiring the most intense heat for several days, unhappily set fire to the house; the stairs were consumed in an instant, and as it surprized them all in their first sleep, it was a happy circumstance that no life perished.

And the vitriol madness flushes up in the ruffian's head, Till the filthy by-lane rings to the yell of the trampled wife, While chalk and alum and plaster are sold to the poor for bread, And the spirit of murder works in the very means of life.

They rolled up towards us, thirty or forty feet in heightdark gray masses, changing to a beautiful vitriol tint, wherever the light struck through their countless and changing crests.