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trays itfelf by a green efflorefcence on the furface. 

 Add to this, the tin is generally alloyed with a con- 

 fiderable proportion of leady befides an additional 

 quantity contained in the folder. 



Examples arc indeed too frequent of fatal confe- 

 quences from foods that had received a taint from 

 copper veflels, whether from the food being of an 

 acid nature fo as to corrode or diflblve a portion of 

 the metal, or from the veffel having contracted a 

 foluble ruft or verdigris, by expofure to the air, 

 or being badly tinned. The affeding incident of 

 this kind, which happened fome years ago to feve- 

 ral gendemen at an entertainment at Salt-Hiil, is 

 ftill within our remembrance. Though it was then 

 generally attiibuted to adulterated wine, it was at 

 length brought to light by the confefllon of the 

 cook, who acknowledge-d, juft before her death, 

 that it was wholly owing to the poifon of copper, 

 in confequence of her own careleflhcfs, and which, 

 through fear of punilhment, Ihe bad been induced 

 till then to conceaU 



On dipping into fome of our bed fyftems of 

 modern cookery, which have undergone feveral 

 editions, I am forry to find, amidft the numerous 

 correftions and improvements, fo much room ftill 

 left for amendment, and fo much ferious caufc for 



animadverQon. 



