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mud depend. As I have very little doubt, iTioiild 

 the analyfis intended correfpond with the few expe- 

 riments I have made, but a very wholefome and 

 palatable liquor, approaching to wine, may be ob- 

 tained from the apple; I fubmit it to the confide- 

 ration of your Society how far it may be neceflary 

 to offer a fmall honorary premium, or a pecuniary 

 reward, for the greateft number of experiments to 

 afcertain the bed manner of making this wine, and 

 for the beft wine produced to a Committee, in a 

 given time. The extraordinary confumption of fpi- 

 rituous liquors, every friend to mankind muft la- 

 ment ; and it is a melancholy ohfervation, that the 

 increafe of the national revenue is purchafed at the 

 expence of the health of fo great a part of the com- 

 munity. This evil, I am afraid^ can never be to- 

 tally removed ; but I conceive it may be melio- 

 rated by the introdudlion of other cheap and miore 

 healthful liquor j at lead it may be expe6led the 

 middling clafs of people, and thofe capable of re- 

 fieftion, may be thereby induced to reiinquifh the 

 ufe of flow, yet certain poifon. 



It may not be unnecefTary to mention, that in 

 the making I took particular care as to the clean- 

 nefs of the copper the apple-juice was boiled in> 

 and which I had immediately from the prefs. — As 

 foon as this juice was reduced to fomewhat lefs 



than 



