When I saw them clear red, I let them stand in that heat about five or six hours, till I found one of them, though it did not crack, did melt or run; for the sand which was mixed with the clay melted by the violence of the heat, and would have run into glass if I had gone on; so I slacked my fire gradually till the pots began to abate of the red colour; and watching them all night, that I might not let the fire abate too fast, in the morning I had three very good (I will not say handsome) pipkins, and two other earthen pots, as hard burnt as could be desired, and one of them perfectly glazed with the running of the sand.
Egész éjjel vigyáztam a tűzre, nehogy túl gyorsan aludjon ki. Mire a nap fölkelt, lett három lábasom és két fazekam, melyek idomtalanok, de erősek és használhatók voltak.