1 go Astronomy. 



oil is povmded with a little sugar, then diluted with tlie 

 extract in some new beer. The beer is rendered somewhat 

 bitter by it, from which the author concludes that one 

 must either save a quantity of hops, or obtain beer which 

 will keep much better, consuming no more hops than usual. 



He proposes also, in years when hops are scarce, to 

 substitute for them the menynnthes trifoHota, (the common 

 buck-bean, or marsh trefoil, marsh clover) taking care t© 

 add a fourth or a third part of hops. 



On the face of this process it is not easy to perceive that 

 any thing is gained by this extra labour, which is not se- 

 cured by boiling the hops in the beer itself as is usually 

 done. The only question is. Whether a larger portion of 

 the useful parts of the hops can, in a plentiful season, be 

 preserved by, making the kind of extract recommended, 

 than by keeping the hops themselves. It is certain that 

 much volatile njattcr is dissipated from hops kept in bags 

 in the usual maimer ; but probably a better way to prevent 

 this waste would be by packing them up in tight casks, to 

 prevent this evaporation. 



ASTRONOMY. 



Talle of' the right Ascension and Declination of Ceres, 

 Pallas, and Juno y for Dccc7nbei' 1805. 



Errata. — In the Tabic given in No. 88, the hours, instead of lieing con- 

 tinued Juwu the cokiuuis, ;i:i in the fir'it and second iines, via. " 7 " in the 

 c;'.c :inii " 5 " in the uthe: , w tie marked "0". 



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