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of Pkats, as they are varied apd diftinguifiied, by that 
other accident of Fermentation, 
And not only the Juices of Fruits are ta be wrought 
or fet a working, as of the Apple, Pear, (V, C. F. A, 270.) 
Briar, Grape, @c. as is well known ; but there is an arti- 
ficial change, viz. Malting, to be made even in the 
Seeds of Plants, fo as to n:iake them fpsnd freely, or 
let go their Juices, and communicate them to common 
Water, and receive a ferment •. Alfo the Juice of the 
Roots Glycyrrhifa will ferment, C. P, A. Pag. 135. 
Alfo the Juice of the Cane, as Sugar. Again, the tap* 
ed Juices of Vegetables (wherein my Oblervations 
are limited) are fiifceptible of a Ferment. As for 
Inftance; 
The xiftof April, i66f. about eight in the Morn- Be^wr^/ 
ing , I bored a hole in the body of a fair and large 
Birch, and put in a Cork with a Quill in the middle ; 
afte» a Moment or two it begun to drop, but yet very 
foftly : Some three Hours after I returned, and it had 
filled a Pint Glafs, and then it droped exceeding faft, viz, 
everyPuKea Drop: This Liquor is not unpleafant to 
the Tafte, and not thick or troubled ; yet it looks as 
though fome few drops of Milk were fpilt in a Bafon of 
Fountain Water. Fide Philof. tranfail. There are 
many ways of Fermenting or letting this Juice a Work* 
ing, that is, of keeping it from Coagulating. And here 
I cannot omit, what I have obferved concerning the 
great Change , which the Juice, particularly of this 
Tree undergoes, by being long buried under Ground. 
Pimco is one of the higheft Mountains in Craven, lying 
on the South fide of that Country, (bme two Miles a- 
bove Carleton. On the South fide the Pike (as they 
call the very top of that Mountain} is a place 
where the Water Ixands ; this is called a Mofs, and is 
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