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that it was absolutely indistinguishable, by the 
most competent judges, from old Canary Sack. He 
gives careful directions for the manufacture of his 
mead ; and these can be, and have, indeed, recently 
been, followed with complete success. This mead, 
when kept for a number of years, froths into the 
glass like champagne, but stills at once, leaving 
the glass lined with sparkling air-bells. It is of a 
pale golden colour, and has a bouquet something 
like old cider ; but its flavour is hardly to be com- 
pared with any known liquor of the present time. 
It is interesting, however, to have its originator’s 
authority for its close resemblance to Canary Sack, 
as this gives a clue to the intrinsic qualities of a 
wine long since passed out of the popular ken. 
