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to be perfectly fweet and good ; the butter was re- 

 turned again to the place whence it was taken, and 

 the hole filled up again with what butter had been 

 taken out with the fcoop, which forced out the brine 

 that occupied its place during the trial; this was af- 

 terwards repeated again in Auguft 1793, in the fame 

 manner as before, and ftill found perfeftly fweet and 

 well tafted. About five weeks after the lafl: trial, 

 both mugs were broke by the rolling of a cafk; but, 

 as the experiment had fucceeded fo well, the fait was 

 ordered to be waftied out, and the butter made up 

 into pounds according to the ufual way, and expofed 

 along with frefli butter in the Liverpool market, and 

 there fold, after being kept two years and feven 

 weeks. t If the accident of breaking the mugs 

 had not happened, the butter, after fo fair a trial of 

 being able to keep, was intended for a prefent to a 

 brother in the Weft-Indies. 



+ It may be faid this is not the firft butter fold in a market, in the 

 goodnefs of which the purchafer upon trial has been difappointed!— 

 But Mr. Harper upon this head obferves, he has now to regret he 

 did not diftrihute the whole thirty pounds amongfl as many different 

 families, friends or foes, who might have teftified to the truth of the 

 faifl, and the good quality of the butter thus preferved. 



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