XI. An account of the preparation and uses of the various kinds of Pot-ash; by John Mitchell M. D. & F. R. S

@article{MitchellXIAA,
  title={XI. An account of the preparation and uses of the various kinds of Pot-ash; by John Mitchell M. D. \& F. R. S},
  author={John H. Mitchell},
  journal={Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London},
  volume={45},
  pages={541 - 563}
}
Altho' Pot- ash is a thing daily used, and well known even to the vulgar; yet, as the making it is a mechanic Art, practised only by the Vulgar, and neglected and overlooked by the Learned, so we have had no satisfactory Account of it; and they, who underhand it, generally keep it a Secret, left others should learn so beneficial an Art. 
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