The mariners magazine, or, Sturmy's mathematical and practical arts containing the description and use of the scale of scales, it being a mathematical ruler, that resolves most mathematical conclusions, and likewise the making and use of the crostaff, quadrant, and the quadrat, nocturnals, and other most useful instruments for all artists and navigators : the art of navigation, resolved geometrically, instrumentally, and by calculation, and by that late excellent invention of logarithms, in the three principal kinds of sailing : with new tables of the longitude and latitude of the most eminent places ... : together with a discourse of the practick part of navigation ..., a new way of surveying land ..., the art of gauging all sorts of vessels ..., the art of dialling by a gnomical scale ... : whereunto is annexed, an abridgment of the penalties and forfeitures, by acts of parliaments appointed, relating to the customs and navigation : also a compendium of fortification, both geometrically and instrumentally / by Capt. Samuel Sturmy.

SECT. XXV. How to make an excellent good Match to give Fire to any Ordnance.

TAke Cords made of Hemp that is not very fine, or of Tow which is better, (al∣though it will consume sooner,) and twist it until you have made the Srands as big as a mans little Finger; this done, boyl the said Cords in strong Lye ashes, and a little Salt-peter, until all the Lye be wasted, and then make it up, and take the feces or re∣mainer into your hand, and with the other draw the Match through twice or thrice, then drie it, and keep it for special uses, for Vaults, Mines, and moist weather, and it is very fit for your use any where.