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ted, as well for cleanliness as to extract more of the native 

 acrimony. After this preparation it is laid in unglazed jars 

 and covered with a thin syrup, which in two or three days 

 is shifted and a riclier put in; this is sometimes removed for 

 a third or fourth, but more than three are seldom requisite. 

 The shifted syrups are not lost, for in Jamaica they are dilu- 

 ted with water and fermented into a pleasant liquor called 

 cool drink, with some mixture of the chaw-stick, lignum 

 vitae, and sugar. Long's Jamaica^ p. 700. 



Ch. Baümgarten. 



