[SECTION VII.]
TABLES OF VARIOUS COMPOSITIONS.
1. Serpents.—Mealed-powder one pound, salt-petre one ounce and three-quarters, charcoal one ounce.
2. Pin Wheels.—Mealed-powder twelve ounces, salt-petre three ounces, sulphur one ounce and a-half, steel-filings two ounces.
3. Common Stars.—Salt-petre one pound, sulphur four and a-half ounces, antimony four ounces, isinglass half an ounce, camphor half an ounce, spirits of wine three-quarters of an ounce.
4. White Stars.—Mealed-powder four ounces, salt-petre twelve ounces, sulphur six ounces and a-half, oil of spike two ounces, camphor five ounces.
5. Blue Stars.—Mealed-powder eight ounces, salt-petre four ounces, sulphur two and a-half ounces, isinglass two ounces, spirits of wine two ounces.
6. Tailed Stars.—Mealed-powder three ounces, salt-petre one ounce, sulphur three ounces, charcoal one ounce.
7. Drove Stars.—Salt-petre one pound, sulphur eight ounces, antimony four ounces.
8. Pointed Stars.—Salt-petre eight and a-half ounces, sulphur two ounces, antimony one ounce and three-quarters.