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a Hogfhead, and a little Cochineal will, and 
has given a fine Colour to it, pleafing to the 
Eye, as well as a better Tafte to the Cyder. 
But nothing gives a fine, natural, bright, amber 
Colour to Cyder like the rotten Apple ; it alfo 
affords a fine Flavour, and is the Life and Spirit 
of Cyder, the Fruit being well fweated in large 
Heaps under Shed, or in the open Air. And I 
am well fatisfied from my little Enquiry, (for I 
can learn fomewhat from every Body) that a 
great deal is owing to Cleanlinefs in making 
Cyder. It is, in fhort, all in all, according to 
the Notion of the' aforefaid Farmer, which he 
ever infifted upon. But this Fellow’s little 
Leafe-Eftate (upon which his Father before him 
lived in Reputation and Credit) of about forty 
Founds a Year, would not do; for tho’ he made 
fome Years forty, fifty, or more Hogfheads of 
Cyder, but fometimes again none at all, yet 
however he might have done very well, had he 
not taken it into his Head to fet up for a Gentle- 
man, the Temper of all our middling People, 
and fo run out in Gaming, Cock-fighting, &c. 
He was an excellent Fellow indeed for Cyder- 
making, but now fled into a little Borough 
Town, in hopes of retrieving his Fortune by 
fome little Place under the Government. 
4 Phe Devonfhire People are all fond of the 
White- four- Apple, which makes the roughefi Cy- 
der. — This Year, 1753, will produce but little 
of this Liquor either in Devonfhire or Corn - 
