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time : and here I conclude my observations ui/on a eul. - 

 ject which is deeply interesting to myself, and whioh 

 the public in general deem to be of great importance. 

 235. POSTSCRIPT on brewing. I think it right 

 to say here, that, ever since I published the instruc- 

 tions for brewing by copper and by wooden utensils, 

 the beer at my own house has always been brewed 

 precisely agreeable to the instructions contained in 

 this book; and I have to add, that I never have had 

 such good beer in my house in all my lifetime, as 

 since I have followed that mode of brewing. My 

 table-beer, as well as my ale, is always as clear as 

 wine. 1 have had hundreds and hundreds of quarters 

 of malt brewed into beer in my house. My people 

 could always make it strong enough and sweet 

 enough ; but never, except by accident, could they 

 make it CLEAR. Now I never have any that is not 

 clear. And yet my utensils are all very small ; and 

 my brewers are sometimes one labouring man, and 

 sometimes another. A man wants showing how to 

 brew the first time. I should suppose that we use, in 

 my house, about seven hundred gallons of beer every 

 year, taking both sorts together; and I can positively 

 assert, that there has not been one drop of bad beer, 

 and indeed none which has not been most excellent, 

 in my house, during the last two years, I think it is, 

 since I began using the utensils, and in the manner 

 named in this book. 



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236. First begging the reader to read again para- 

 graph 149, 1 proceed here, in compliance with numer- 

 ous requests to that effect, to describe, as clearly as 

 I can, the manner of constructing the sort of Ice- 

 houses therein mentioned. In England, these recep- 

 tacles of frozen water are, generally, under ground, 

 and always, if possible, under the shade of trees, the 

 opinion being, that the main thing, if not the only 

 thing, is to keep away the heat. The heat is to be kept 

 away certainly ; but moisture is the great enemy of 



