74 September 1748. 



pounds of brown fugar are added to this mixture, 

 which muft then (land for a while, and after that 

 it is fit for ufe. Cherry wine is made in the fame 

 manner; but care muft be taken that when the 

 juice is prefledout, theftones be not crufhed, for 

 they give the wine a bad tafte. 



THEY make brandy from peaches here, after 

 the following method. The fruit is cut aftmder, 

 and the ftones are taken out. The pieces of fruit 

 are then put into a vefiel, where they are left for 

 three weeks or a month, till they are quite pu- 

 trid. They are then put into a diftilling veflel, 

 and the brandy is made and afterwards diftilled 

 over again. This brandy is not good for people 

 who have a more refined tafte, but it is only for 

 the common kind of people, fuch as workmen 

 and the like. 



APPLES yield a brandy, when prepared in the 

 fame manner as the peaches* But for this pur- 

 pofe thofe apples are chiefly taken which fall from 

 the tree before they are ripe. 



THE American Night- foade, or Phytolacca de- 

 candra Linn. S. N. grows abundantly near the 

 farms, on the high road, in hedges and bufhes, 

 and in leveral places in the fields. Whenever I 

 came to any of thefe places I was fure of finding 

 this plant in great abundance. Moft of them had 

 red berries, which grew in bunches, and looked 

 very tempting, though they were not at all fit for 

 eating. Some of thefe plants were yet in flower. 

 In fome places, fuch as in the hedges, and near 

 the houfes, they fometirnes grow two fathom 

 high. Eut in the fields were always low; yet I 

 could no where perceive that the cattle had eaten 



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