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were very celebrated, (for our Cyder Vintages, like thofe of the 
Clarets and Ports, are very different in different Years) and had been 
drank of by another Gentleman, who was a happy Poffeflor, and un- 
contefted Lord, facile Princeps, of the Royal Wilding, met at the Houfe 
of the latter Gentleman, a Year or two after the fam’d Royal Wilding 
you may be fure was produc’d, as the beft Return for the W bitfour that 
had been tafted at the other Gentleman’s : And what was the Conteft > 
Each Gentleman did not contend, as is ufual, that his was the Beft 
Cyder ; but fuch was the Ziguilibyium of the Juices, and fuch the Ge- 
nerofity of their Breafts, (for finer Gentlemen we have not in our County) 
that each affirmed his own was the worft ; the Gentleman of the Soutp- 
_ Ham declared in Favour of the Royal Wilding, and the Gentleman of 
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our Parts declared for the Whitfour. In the mean time, the Company 
(which was publick and very numerous) could not decide the Contro- 
very, becanfe (being Gentlemen of the ftriéteft Juftice) the W hitfour 
was not then prefent to /peak for itfelf: But thofe who had tafted each 
of them, as far as they could judge from the Reprefentations of their 
Memories, remain’d under a perfect Indetermination, — 
THE Manner in which the W hitfour came to fhew itfelf in its true 
can-leatn—Guecheftand ftrongelt Cyders, 
and thofe which have the boldeft Roughne/3, (and for any thing I know 
the Cafe is the fame with a// Apple Juices) stow harder the longer they 
are permitted to ftand on the Grofs-Lyes, and therefore the fooner they 
are taken off from them, the more they are Sofined : we therefore chufe 
to rack them from the fowler or thicker Lyes, as foon as we perceive 
they are feparated in fome tolerable Manner, which (according to the 
fairer or more difturbed Weather) is ordinarily in two, three, or four 
Days, and the more foft you would haye your Cyder, the more 
frequently you rack it to three or four Times only ; the weaker Cyder 
will not bear it above twice, . Sea 
BY this Method, as far as I can learn, the Whitfour was firft brought 
into Repute ; and I have within thefe ten Days tafted of that Cyder, 
(brought from the South-Hams) made this twelve Months, bottled Jaft 
Summer, and perfectly fine, which was as faweet and mellow as tho’ it 
had come that Morning from the Pound : and under all that Honey, it 
had all the Roughnefs and Boldnefs which is the Glory of our Cyder : 
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