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the liquor contrads^a burnt empyreumatick tafte, 

 as in the prefent inftance j x^Jkwly^ the greater is 

 the danger of a mctallick impregnation. For the 

 procefs may be prefumed to be generally performed 

 in a veird of brafs, or copper, as few families pof- 

 fefs any other that is fufficiently capacious. Nor 

 can a veffel of caft-iron, though perfedlly fafe, be 

 properly recommended for this purpofe, as it would 

 probably communicate a chalybeate tafte, and dark 

 colour to the liquor. At all events brafs and copper 

 veflels ought to be entirely banilhed from this and 

 every other culinary procefs. The mifchievous 

 confequences refulting from metallick poifons, and 

 particularly of lead and copper, are, I am convinced, 

 more numerous and extenfive than is commonly 

 imagined. The evil has long been loudly com- 

 plained of, and yet the people of this country con-, 

 tinue to facrifice their health, and lives, to the moft 

 unpardonable negligence and fupinenefs, even 

 when the remedy is at hand. But I iliall referve 

 my ftridures on this fubjedl for a future paper. 



Remarks on Cyder and P?R?iy. 



Before I conclude^ it may not be improper to 

 add a few obiervations on the prefent ftate of /ruit 

 liqirv^rs in our cyder counties, the improvement of 

 which is an object of great importance to the pub- 

 lick, 



