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the gas. I did not remark any perceptible difference between 

 them ; it appeared, however, as it" the colour was less 

 weakened with the sulphurous acid gas than with the liquid 

 sulphurous acid. 



Besides, this slight difference might perhaps be owincr to 

 the greater quantity of coloured liquor employed in the latter 

 experiments, and to the facility of observing the effects of 

 the gas, and to that of directing its action at pleasure. 



For the present I confine myself to a suTiple detail of facts, 

 and I have reason to think it correct. 



Tlie same experiments repeated with sulphurous acid, ob- 

 tained either by the intermedium of charcoal or by that of 

 sugar, furnished similar results. 



XXXIV. On Malting. By John Carr, Esq. 



[Continued from p. 102.] 



J\t every place, and in most of the houses, I conversed 

 with the common workmen, and endeavoured to collect from 

 them their practice and ideas of malting. Man\ of theni 

 were of d and intelligent men, and had worked in malt-houses 

 all their time. They declared, they had never used them- 

 selves, or seen others use any water upon the floors; and 

 they all believed it could not be employed there without in- 

 jury. When asked, why they worked the young floors so 

 cool ? they said, to prevent tlie corn from sweating out 

 the cistern water, and to keep the floors back, (meaning the 

 vegetation.) When interrogated why it was necessarv to 

 keep back the vegetation at first ? they replied, if it was al- 

 lowed to go on loo quick at first, it would both sweat out 

 the moisture and drive out a Ion;: tail (root). And when 

 questioned as to what injury would result from a long root? 

 their reply was, it would run the inside of the corn out, and 

 make light malt. These were the actual txjjres'^ions of 

 many, and the ideas of all ; their opinions of the acrospire 

 were also very siniilar. Most of them signitiid that they 

 wished to get il no farther than over the back of the com, 

 meaning the thickest part of the barley, and none were de- 

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