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bottle filled with new beer, almost to the very neck ; 

 let the bottle be well stopped, lest it fly out : and 

 continue it, renewing the embers every day, by the 

 space often days, and then compare it with another 

 bottle of the same beer set by. Take also lime both 

 quenched and unquenched, and set the bottles in 

 them &quot; ut supra.&quot; This instance is referred both to 

 the even distribution, and also to the refining of the 

 spirits by heat. 



310. Take bottles, and swing them, or carry 

 them in a wheel-barrow upon rough ground twice in 

 a day, but then you may not fill the bottles full, but 

 leave some air ; for if the liquor come close to the 

 stopple, it cannot play nor flower : and when you 

 have shaken them will either way, pour the drink 

 into another bottle stopped close after the usual 

 manner, for if it stay with much air in it, the drink 

 will pall ; neither will it settle so perfectly in all the 

 parts. Let it stand some twenty-four hours, then 

 take it, and put it again into a bottle with air, &quot; ut 

 supra :&quot; and thence into a bottle stopped, ft ut 

 supra :&quot; and so repeat the same operation for seven 

 days. Note that in the emptying of one bottle into 

 another, you must do it swiftly lest the drink pall. 

 It were good also to try it in a bottle with a little 

 air below the neck, without emptying. This in 

 stance is referred to the even distribution and refining 

 of the spirits by motion. 



311. As for percolation inward and outward, 

 which belongeth to separation, trial would be made 

 of clarifying by adhesion, with milk put into new 



