BARLEY. * 57 



ferjnce, 36 feet over, 22£ feet in height, and 

 contained 3556 barrels, or 128,016 gallons, 

 and caused the death of eight persons by its 

 bursting. 



It is generally a custom with brewers 

 to give entertainments in these immense vats 

 when first built, and before being used ; large 

 parties are often entertained in them with a 

 dinner or a ball ; and it has a curious effect to 

 look down on the party thus situated, which 

 gives the idea of the Lilliputians having pos- 

 sessed themselves of the casks of the people 

 of Brobdignag. 



Wine made from malt, when kept to a pro- 

 per age, has as good a body, and a flavour 

 nearly as agreeable, as the generality of 

 Madeira wines. 



The wort of malt is an excellent antiscor- 

 butic. Barley was used by the ancients for 

 many medicinal purposes. Galen, in his book 

 of the Faculties of Simples, says barley is not 

 so heating as wheat, and that it has a little abs- 

 tersive, or cleansing quality. The ladies, in 

 old times, mixed the meal of this corn with 

 honey and vinegar, to take away freckles and 

 other spots on the flesh. 



Dr. James says, barley, however prepared, 



