vi PREFACE. 
Cyder Fruit $ for without the right Sort of Cy- 
der Fruit, there is no fuch Thing as making 
right Cyder. But this is not the Quality of the 
S outham Cyders, as is well known to fome Lon- 
doners , who annually come into this Maritime 
County on Bufinefs, where at firft they drink this 
Cyder as free as if it was the London Sort; but, by 
the Time they have drank a Bottle or two, they 
find themfelves intoxicated, to their Wonder ; 
for this Southams Cyder is a Winter as well as a 
Summer Liquor, therefore in Devonjhire they 
call it Manly Cyder ; and indeed, I found it fuch 
when I drank it there: But I cannot fay the 
fame by the Herefordshire Cyder ; for when I 
did the like in that County, I found it a very 
pleafant Liquor, but far from being as ftrong as 
the Southams Cyder. 
So the Herefordjhire Cyder in London is juftly 
accounted a very palatable Sort, yet, in the ge- 
neral is allowed to be a weak Cyder ; and all 
weak Cyders, we know, are naturally cold and 
fickly in Quality, generating Wind, and is ve- 
ry prejudicial to the Stomach, eonfequently very 
unfit for Winter drinking: Whereas the South- 
ams Cyder, by feveral Rackings, is made a plea- 
fant, fweet Cyder, ora rough, ftrong Cyder by 
fewer Rackings ; fo that it may he made a moft 
wholefome, palatable Cyder both for Summer 
and Winter drinking, without the Affiftance of 
any Ingredient whatfoever. 
Sir Jonas More y in his Cyder-Book, has en- 
deavoured to perfuade the World, that by mix- 
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