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ADDITIONAL NOTES 



589 



cn.de to fubnde, a little more fimple mucilage muft be added 



as 



gum arable or whites of 



and 



a faiid-(hower be again 



pafTed 



through 



iTWa to the tendency of wines to become vinegar, this I 

 ._...^„; ^.„ K. nre.vented by not expofing the fermenting m 



formed may be prevented by 



the fermenting mate 



th 



oxy 



the air more than can be eafily prevented, J 



fphere with the fpint th 



the union of 



of the 



o 



fecluded from th 



d though the vinous fermentation proceeds flower, whea 



. ^ . .. r 11.. u„^^.-v,^o o-.nrf np,rfe£t I as the. 



yet it finally becomes more perfed 



W in fweet wines continues to become fpirit after it ^s c°rl^^ "P 



bo 



though the procefs is flower 



d the wine confeqtientlyr 



'becomes ftronger .s it grows older, - ^'^/""'"'fertW to fer 



Hence I obferve the raanufadurers of raifin -wines fet them to fer 



ment in large calks with only the bung-bole open, that they may not 

 be too much expofed to the atmofphere; and fooa flop them up or 

 bottle them, before the fweetnefc vanifhes, which they judge of by 



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'^Vw^ronce told by a gentleman, who made a confide rable quan- 



tity of cyder on 

 ftroneer conftru£l 



h 



own 

 than 



flat 



juice 



foo 



it 



that he had procured vefliels of 

 foal, and that he dire6led the apple- 



and that 



had fettled, to be bunged up clofe 



though he had had one veffel or two' occafionally burft by the eX 



panfion 



that hiscyd 



of the fermenting liquor, yet that this rarely occurred, and 



to be of the mofl: excellent quality, and 



failed 



took a confiderably greater price at market. , 



Nor fhould this account of fermentation be concluded without ob 



fervlng, that it converts fngar, which is a wholefome nutriment both, 



to young and old 



fpirit, which 



is a 



poifbnous material 



hours 



ftimulates the whole fyftem into too violent exertion for a few 

 and leaves it afterwards in confequence torpid and maft 



and hence that the ftrongefl wines are the moft pernicious, and th 



all of them fliould be diluted with water. 



h^ thofe ill general j wh 



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