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Vegetable substances, preserved in thestate called pickles, by means of the anti-septic power of vinegar, whose sale fre-quently depends greatly upon a fine livelygreen colour; and the consumption ofwhich, by sea-faring people in particular,is prodigious, are sometimes intentionallycoloured by means of copper. Gerkins,Freuch beaus, samphires, the green podsof capsicum, and many other pickled vege-table substances, oftener than is perhapsexpected, are met with impregnated with