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not imagine it had got one fourth part of the fait 

 that would be neceflary to preferve it.* 



Butter thus cured would bear to be carried to the 

 Eaft or the. Weft-Indies, and would keep fweet 

 during the longeft voyages, if it were fo packed as 

 not to allow the butter to be fo far melted as tq 

 occafion the falts to feparate from it. But as none 

 ofthefe falts admit of any chemical union with the 

 butter, it muft happen, that if ever the butter be 

 fo far melted as to become of a fluid coniiftence, the 



• But after this butter has been cured in the moft perfcdl manner, 

 it may chance to be much dcbafed in its quality by being improperly 

 treated during the time it is ufmg. Therefore, obferve, that, when it 

 is broken up for ufe, a fmall portion Ihould be pared from the furfacc 

 all over, efpecially near the edges, in cafe the air Ihould not have been 

 fo entirely excluded as it ought to have been. If it be to be quickly 

 confumed, it may be then fpooned up as it is wanted, without any 

 other precaution than that of keeping it carefully covered up fo as to 

 exclude dull, &,<:» from haying accefs to it. But if it be to be ufed 

 very flowly, and if the perfon to be employed in fpooning it up be 

 not very careful, or fo indolent as not to be at the trouble of clofing 

 it up at each time with th^ covers, it may happen that the part which 

 is thus long expofed to the air may contra<fl a fmall degree of ranci« 

 dity. To guard againft this evil, in theft circumftances, when the 

 veflcl is opened, let a ftrong brine of common fait be prepared that will 

 fwim an egg, and poured, when cold, upon the furface of the butter; 

 this will cover that furface effedually, even though the operator fliould 

 be a little carelefs, and will thus guard againfl the inconvenience com« 

 plained of: for though the quality of the butter M'ill thus be injured in 

 forae degree, in confequence of the water a<fling upon it, yet that is an 

 evil of far lefs material moment than the flighted degree of rancidity 

 would occafion. 



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