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of real Iczd:* That fome of the farmers had been 

 known to buy fugar of lead to corred the acidity 

 of their cyder! That others, in order to preferve 

 their weak cyder for the ufe of their labourers, 

 were wont to have recourfe to the well-known fecret 

 of fufpcnding a leaden ball in the calk: That the 

 cyder is generally drawn into large glazed pitchers, 

 in which it often (lands many hours before it is 

 drunk by the labourers: And finally, that accord- 

 ing to the teftimony of the late Dr. Cbarltoriy moft 

 of the paralyticks recommended to the Bath Hof- 

 pital were fent from the cyder counties, except 

 Herefordfhire, where, on enquiry, it was afterwards 

 difcovered that lead was not employed in any part 

 of the cyder apparatus of that county." 



Since the above was written, however, I am forry 

 to find, from Mr. Marjhall\ late furvey of the 

 Cyder-procefs in Herefordfhire, that lead is not 



• This, I am not ignorant, has been ludicroufly attributed, by fome 

 of his Devonfhire antagonifts, to leaden (hot accidentally left in the 

 bottles before the cyder was bottled: By others, to a portion of lead 

 introduced by defign, in order to ralfe a laugh at the Do<S^or's expence.. 

 But admitting fo accurate an obferver could fo eafily be impofed upon, 

 (which is highly improbable) yet the do<fbine refts not on this experi- 

 ment alone, but on a feries of fadls which will ftill remain unihaken ; 

 and which, perhaps, will not be found eafy to overturn. ■ ■■ For the 

 ctrcumflances have been communicated by difierent authors at different 

 periods, and without the flighted appearance of colluilon, and yet all 

 lead to the iame point. 



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