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(if in other respects they are not prejudicial) he may be a Gainer bythe near Compression of the tainted Fruit, which, as we speak in ourCountry Phrase, will go nearer together than the other. His Advan-tage may be the greater, if the Conceit which goes current with thembe not a bottomless Fancy, That a convenient Quantity of rottenfles mix’d with the found, is greatly assistant to the Work of Fermen-tation, and notably helps to clarify the Cider. , ^

3. It matters not much whether the Cider be forc’d to purge itk

by working downwards in the Barrel, or upwards at the usual Vent, 10there be Matter sufficient left on the top for a thick Skin or hilm,which will sometimes be drawn over it when it works, after the ulnamanner, as when ’tis presently stopp’d up with space left for Fermetat ion, to be perform’d altogether within the Vessel. .

The thick Skin, or Leathern-Coat, the Cider oftentimes contractsas well after it hath purged itself after the usual manner, as otherwu >is held the surest Preservation of its Spirits, and the best Securitygainst other Inconveniences incident to this, and other like vinous li-quors ; of which the Fievonjhire Cider-Merchants are so sensible, thahbeside the particular Care they take, that matter be not wanting &the Contexture of this upper Garment by stopping up the Vesterloon as they have fill’d it, (with the allowance of a Gallon or two U P'on the score of Fermentation ) they cast in Wheat en Bran, or Dust> jthicken the Coat, and render it more certainly Air-proof.think you will believe their. Care in this kind not impertinent, if 1 °^can believe a Story which I have to tell of its marvellous Efficacy:near Neighbour of mine assures me, that his Wife having this efilled a Barrel with Mead, being strong, it wrought so boisterously *the Vessel, that the good Woman casting her Eye that way accidcn ^ly, found it leaking at every Chink, which ascribing to the Strengththe Liquor, she thought immediately by giving it vent, to lave bthe Liquor and the Vessel, but in vain; both the Stopples being P,^led out, the Leakage still continued, and the Vessel not at alltill casually at length putting in her Finger at the top, she brakepremention’d Film; which done, a good part of the Mead irnmedmly flying out, left the residue in peace, and the Leakage ceased* ^may seem incredible, that so thin a Skin should be more coercive t° .mutinous Liquor, than a Barrel with Oaken-Ribs, and stubborn H°°PBut I am so well assur’d of the Veritablenefs of my Neighbour'slation, that I dare not question it: The Reason of it let wiser Me 11termine. \

4. If the Apples be abortive, having been (as it usually hapF' 0 ^stiaken down besore the time by a violent Wind, it is obferv’d to ^indilpensibly necessary, that they lye together in hoard, at ^ - [j 01 nthe usual time of their Maturity, that the Cider otherwise k ^

or never found worth the drinking. _ ifin^

A Neighbour told me, that making a Quantity of Cider with/'falls, which he let ripen in the Hoard, near a Month interceding ^tween the time of their Dccussion, and that which Nature intende ^their Maturity; his Cider prov’d very good, when all his Neigh 0 ^who made up their untimely Fruit as soon as it fell, had a crude,stere, indigested Liquor, not worth the Name of Cider. -ut

5. No Liquor is observed to be more easily affected with the ba ^of the Vessel it is put into, than Cider ; therefore singular Care 1 ^

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