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my cave from running, and proceeded to calculate the value of my ley, as follows:
In the first place, I find that 1-4th cwt. of American pot, at 55s. per cwt. (their real price at the time) is 13s. 9d. which must be the value also of my 32 gallons of leys, drawn from the ashes. At that rate, the English pint is worth about two farthings and one half farthing. I now proceeded further to complete my experiment, and satisfy myself at what expence white soap could be made. For this purpose, I charged a small boiler, which holds about 1½ gallons, with 4 libs. of good rhinded tallow, and with 10 pints of the ley of the weaker sort, or second running, which had been kept separate. The pan boiled very close, that is, the leys and tallow became one mass of seemingly thin soap, without any appearance of separation betwixt the leys
