Meal powder two pound, and charcoal four ounces and three quarters.
For large Tourbillons.
Meal powder two pound, saltpetre one pound, brimstone eight ounces, and beat iron eight ounces.
N. B. Tourbillons may be made very large, and of different colour’d fires, only you are to observe, that the larger they be, the weaker must be the charge; and, on the contrary, the smaller they be, the stronger must be their charge.
For Water Ballóóns.
I. Saltpetre four pound, brimstone two pound, meal powder two pound, antimony four ounces, saw dust four ounces, and glass dust one ounce and a quarter.
II. Saltpetre nine pound, brimstone three pound, meal powder six pound, rosin twelve ounces, and antimony eight ounces.
For Water Squibs.
I. Meal powder one pound, and charcoal one pound.
II. Meal powder one pound, and charcoal nine ounces.