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the proce of pror extremely thin loaves of gold. An of gold is taken, rolled into a thin about 1} inches wido and, after ling, is cut into squares. These % are placed in piles of seventy-five, uare being placed between pieces h paper, about four inches square, ire of vellum replacing the paper at als. The whole is then placed in of vellum and beaten with a heavy er till the squares of gold have the area as the squares of aoe Bach 1} of gold is then divi into four parts, and tho beating is repeated, iper and vellum being replaced by eater’s skin. Who dividing and g is again repeated, until the gold have a thickne of about the Oth part of aninch. Pure gold-leaf } for out-door decoration, but the s often alloyed with silver or copper. imes both, to produce different. D [s. 158]