[2327] See B. xxi. c. 3, and B. xxiv. c. 23.
[2328] This is impracticable; neither vinegar, wine, nor water, will mingle with pitch. These resins, however, if stirred up briskly in hot water, become of a paler colour, and acquire an additional suppleness.
[2329] Perhaps so called from Calabria, a country where the pine abounded, and part of which was called Bruttium.
[2330] Or wine-vats.
[2331] See c. [8] of the present Book.
[2332] Stillaticia.
[2334] This operation removes from the pitch a great portion of its essential oil, and disengages it of any extraneous bodies that may have been mixed with it.
[2335] Fée remarks that there is no necessity for this selection, though no doubt rain-water is superior to spring or cistern water, for some purposes, from its holding no terreous salts in solution.
[2336] This would colour the resin more strongly, Fée says, and give it a greater degree of friability.