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fectly subsided in the bottle, exceeding in flavour in 

 the opinion of good judges, any liquor artificially fined, 

 within their recollection. 



It may be laid down as a general rule, that the less 

 crab cider is racked, the higher is its flavour. It seems 

 probable, that the liquor is improved by having some- 

 thing to feed on the cider of the highest character, 

 throws up bubbles of fixed air like the still cham- 

 pagne wine : that life or briskness, so much admired 

 by many people in this cider, is really a defect; when 

 existing in a great degree, it is an invariable evidence 

 that the cider has undergone too great a degree of 

 fermentation. Of all ciders known in our country, the 

 crab is the most economical in regard to bottles if 

 fine, and suffered to stand twenty-four hours in the 

 bottle before it is corked, it will break but few bot- 

 tles when packed in loam, and the corks secured by 

 the top of the box, it may be safely exported to the 

 most distant parts of the world, and is becoming a 

 valuable article of foreign commerce. 



