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pressed, or where to fill the subsiding space, it 

 becomes necessary to make successive additions 

 of the must, the decomposition will be partial, 

 and necessarily incomplete. Supposing, for 

 example, the whole mass thus enclosed, and sub- 

 jected to the different crushings as each is thrown 

 in the tub, to require eight days to accomplish 

 the various phenomena of the fermentation 

 through which it must pass, is it not apparent, 

 that in some, such as the last thrown in, the 

 term will be shortened, and the work of such be 

 incomplete, when the operation of the first will 

 have been completely finished. The result of 

 such mismanagement will be a wine predisposed 

 to acidity, a wine, the fermentation of which has 

 been partial and incomplete ; and again, a third 

 ingredient, yet retaining the form and character 

 of must. 



Such an unskilful admixture will infallibly 

 produce a wine of greatly inferior quality, and 

 susceptible of change from the slightest transient 

 causes. 



Of the. Fermentation. 



THE receiving tub which isjudiciously placed, 

 and under circumstances favourable to the object, 

 exhibits symptoms of improvement almost as 

 soon as it becomes filled. But these phenome- 

 na are affected by various causes, which hasten, 



