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that the juice has ceased running from the presses it will already 
have acquired from forty to fifty degrees of heat, which is suf- 
fered to increase to sixty-five or sixty-six degrees, and the mo- 
ment it has attained this heat the fire is smothered by covering 
it with wet eoals. Lime, slaked with warm water, is then thrown 
into the boiler, in the proportion of two grammes and a half 
(about forty-eight grains) to a litre of juice, being careful to 
vary the ‘proportion according to the consistence of the juice. 
The liquid mass must be well stirred, in all directions, for some 
minutes, and then the fire is revived, in order to raise the heat 
to eighty degrees ; that is, to the degree nearest approaching to 
ebullition. The fire is then taken out of the fire-place, and as 
the liquor cools a coat forms on its surface, which in half an hour 
has acquired a degfee of consistence, which at the end of three 
quarters of an hour is carefully taken off with the scum. As 
soon as it is skimmed, a cock is turned, which is fixed about a 
foot from the bottom of the boiler, and the liquor runs out into 
a square boiler; afterwards a second cock is opened, which is 
quite at the bottom of the boiler, in order to empty it entirely, 
and the liquor is made to fall upon a filter, through which it also 
runs into the square boiler. 
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LXVII. Onthe Cosmogony of Moses. By Mr. ANpREw Horn. 
To Mr. Tilloch. 
Sir, — Havine in my former communication shown that the 
term day, as used in designating the six periods of the Genesis, 
properly denotes one revolution, whether slow or rapid, of the 
earth upon its axis, which produced a morning and an evening 
successively upon every meridian on the globe, my object in the 
present paper is to rectify some misconceptions of your corre- 
spondents, respecting certain parts of the Cosmogony connected 
with those periods. 
The statement of facts enumerated by Dr. Prichard, p. 287 
of your last volume, is 1 conceive just, with the exception of the 
three articles where he says *‘ the water had subsided before the 
creation of organized beings.” But this perhaps is one of those 
verbal inaccuracies which he hints at in your last number. Your 
correspondent F, E-——s has committed the same mistake at 
p- 181 of the present volume, in which he remarks, that “ the 
waters retire previous to the existence of animated beings, and 
never again cover the earth until the days of Noah.” On this 
error he founds a plausible objection against the Cosmogony, and 
Y2 endeavours 
