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indicated, a decided improvement on the beer and albumen. 

 It possesses all its good, without any of its bad, qualities ; 

 the principal of which are the stickiness already referred to, 

 the varying qualities of beer in different localities, and, 

 especially., the irregular proportions of chlorides which, more 

 or less, are always present, and to get rid of which many 

 workers are in the habit of adding silver nitrate, which 

 always introduces an additional element of uncertainty." 



