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Veflels being almoft quite filled with the Rape s one of 
them is filled up with Wine , and the other only half fijll 
for the time ; and every day they draw , by a cock , half 
the Wine^ that is io the full Veffel, therewith quite to fill 
up the other, that is but half full> obfei-viog ent^rchangea- 
ble turnsof filling and unfilling the Vieilel^* Prdinarily, at 
the end of two or three dayes^ the half filled Veflel be- 
gins to heatj and this heat augments for feverai dayes fuc- 
ceffively ^ continuing to do fb till the Vinegpr is perfectly 
made 5 and the Workmen know 5 that the Vinegar is made 
by the ceafing of the heat. In Sumtqer it is ^ work of fif^ 
teen dayes s in Winter it proceeds more llowly , and that 
according to the degree of Cold weather. 
When the weather is hotteft 3 the wine muft: be drawn 
ti^'iceaday, to put it out of one Veflel into the other. It 
is only the half filled Ca(k that heats , and as fopn as yop 
have done filling up ^ its heat is choaked and (topped for 
thetimej( and the other Cafk j which is unfilled^, begins to 
Y?; The full VejGfel is quite opfp at ^he top y but a wooden 
cover is put on the Veflel, th^t is but half (^h 
The beft Wine makes the beft Vinegar ^ but yet they 
make good Vinegar of Wine that is turned. , 
The Wine, in changing^ leaves a certain Greafe, which 
fticksp^r^/y tothefidespf the Ca{k 5 (and thgt they take 
care to do clean away ) partlj/ to the Rape 5 fo that if they 
cleanfe not the Rape from it almoft every year once ^ the 
Win^ turns into a whitifti liquor , which is neither Wine 
siorVinegar* 
At the time when they pour the Wine out of one Vefl[el 
into the other, a fcum arifeth on the top of the Veflel^, 
which muft be carefully taken away. 
In the Calks , which have never ferved for this purpofe 
before, the Vinegar is made more flowlyj than in fuchgthat 
have been ufed already. 
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