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drawn off into another cask, wherein there has been aqua- 

 vita or whisky, bunged quite close, and afterwards taken 

 to the cellars, which in this country are excellent and cool. 

 This mead becomes good in three years time, and by 

 keeping, it improves, like many sorts of wine. The 

 mead for immediate drink is made from malt, hops, and 

 honey, in the same proportion, and undergoes a similar 

 process. In Hungary it is usual to put ginger in mead. 

 There are other sorts of mead in Poland, as Wisniak. 

 Dereniak, Malinaik ; they are made of honey, wild 

 cherries, berries of the Cornus mascula, and raspberries ; 

 they all undergo the same process, and are most excellent 

 and wholesome after a few years keeping. I never saw a 

 gouty man in those provinces where mead is in common 

 use. The Lipiec is made in the same way, but it contains 

 the honey and pure water only. The honey gathered by 

 the bees from the Azalea pontica, at Oczakoff, and in 

 Potesia in Poland, is of an intoxicating nature ; it pro- 

 duces nausea, and is used only for medical purposes, 

 chiefly in rheumatism, scrophula, and eruptions of the 

 skin, in which complaints it has been attended with great 

 success. In a disease among the hogs called wengry (a 

 sort of plague among these animals), a decoction of the 

 leaves and buds of this plant is given, with the greatest 

 effect, and produces almost instantaneous relief. This 

 disease attacks the hogs with a swelling of their throat, 

 and terminates in large hard knots, not unlike the plague, 

 on which the decoction acts as a digestive, abates the 

 fever directly in the first stage, and suppurates the knots. 

 It is used in Turkey, I understand, with the same view 

 in the plague. Tournefort makes mention, in his travels, 

 of this honey/ 



