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one side to expel the air that is contained in the bottom of 

 the bottle ; then light the fire ; take care that the bottles do 

 not touch the sides nor the bottom of the vessel, for fear they 

 will burst, and increase the heat gradually, until the ther- 

 mometer rises to 160 or 170°. If such an instrument cannot 

 be procured, you must judge by the finger; the water must 

 not be so hot as to scald. It must be kept at that sufficient 

 degree of heat for an half hour ; it should not be kept on any 

 longer, nor a greater heat produced than above mentioned. 

 During the time the bottles are increasing in heat, a teakettle 

 of water must be ready boiled as soon as the fruit is done. 

 As soon as the fruit is properly scalded, take the bottles out 

 of the water one at a time, and fill them within an inch of 

 the cork with the boiling water. Cork them down immedi- 

 ately, doing it gently but very tight, by pushing the cork in, 

 for agitation will be apt to burst the bottles ; lay the bottles 

 on the side, to keep the air from escaping. You must take 

 care to let them lie on their sides until wanted, often turning 

 them over, once in a week or once in a month. 



17. Miscellaneous Notices in Letters to the Editor. 



"Rome, Dec. 6, 1827. 



" We proceeded to Hanover, Hamburg, Kiel and Copen- 

 hagen, at which last place we spent some time. It is a 

 clean, pleasant town, and remarkably quiet; no great proof 

 of its prosperity. In truth it seems to have very little com- 

 merce, and that little does not increase. Some large ware- 

 houses built for the purposes of trade, are now used as 

 granaries by the government. As they cannot be filled with 

 goods brought from the Indies, they are filled with corn re- 

 ceived for taxes, in lieu of specie, of which there is very httle 

 in the country. According to all that I could observe, there 

 must be very little opportunity to acquire wealth in Den- 

 mark, but the means of learning are not wanting. We vis- 

 ited an excellent reading-room, where, in a choice collection 

 of valuable works from abroad, I was pleased to see the 

 American Journal. At the museum of the university a large 

 number of Runic antiquities were shown us. When we re- 

 collect how the Scandinavians extended their conquests and 

 their colonies over Europe, and especially how many of them, 

 under the diflferent names of Danes and Normans, became 

 mingled with the older inhabitants of our parent country, we 



