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the fupplanting much the Importation of Fo- 
reign Wines. 
An Account of Cyder-making, as fent the 
13th Day of July , 1753, to this Author, 
by an eminent Dodtor of Phyfic; (liewing 
different Ways of making and improving 
Cyder by feveral Ferfons in the Country 
about him. 
YDER is a fine, cooling, refrefhing Li- 
quor, but unlefs it be well managed and 
conduced in the making of it, a great Part of 
its delicate Flavour, pleafant Tafte, and fine 
beautiful Colour will be in great Meafure loft ; 
therefore let me charge thofe who have the 
Management of it to be very circumfpedt, di- 
ligent, careful, cleanly, and dextrous in their 
handling fo excellent, fo refrefhing a Liquor, 
which is not to be undertaken by every idle, 
dirty Fellow who pretends to be (killed in this 
Undertaking. This Sleight, this Dexterity, 
which is only known to the Curious and Know- 
ing, is better underftood than exprefs’d ; and 
therefore, after all, my Directions will not ef- 
fectually avail, but to fuch as are fitted, and 
take the proper Meafures to be watchfully at- 
tending, and very careful in this Work, and 
every Opportunity muft be employed ‘in the 
perfecting it. Here you may fee, that if a 
bungling Fellow fhall take it upon him to make 
the Cyder after your Diredtions, and it does not 
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