render it muchsuperior to gum-water, are the following:—It doesnot deaden, nor otherwise alter the colours withwhich it is mixed : it does not crack like gum;and it becomes so soon hard, as not only to defendthe colours from being affected by smoke and othervapours, but even to bear the surface of…
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