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our Southams , Cyder, by too much racking, 
made fo fweet, as to render it fomewhat difa- 
greeable, artd even unwholefome. Of this Sort 
I once drank about a Quart, but I had not 
drank it long, before I became Tick and griped. 
And it is a certain Maxim with us, that the lefs 
Cyder is racked, the ftronger and wholefomer 
it is. For this Reafon our Devonjhire Farmers 
feldom rack their Cyder for their Family Ufe 
more than once, becaufe it is lefs Trouble, 
ftronger- bodied, much more . wholefome, and 
they think it better flavour’d than the mild, 
fweet Sort. And indeed it is now obferved, 
that moft Perfons of the knowing Sort, admire 
fut:h Cyder moft, which naturally retains a mo- 
derate rough Tafte, particularly when it is made 
from feveral Sorts of the true Cyder Apples, that 
are reckoned in Devonjhire the Sweet-four, the 
Cornijh , the Bachamoors, the Megets, and the 
Cagagees. 
The PraRice of a curious Devon (hire Gentle - 
man> who is allowed , by the Country about him , 
to be generally Majler of the bejl of Cyder — 
From the Prefs he puts his new Cyder into a 
Cafk, where it is to ferment till it begins to 
fall. That is to fay, the Fall is not to be ob- 
fer ed from the Fall of its Head, but from the 
Fall of its grofs Lees or Particles ; and this 
happens as the Weather is foul or fine. In 
muddy, cloudy Weather it holds its Fermenta- 
tion longer; in fine, ferene Weather it will 
fpmetimes fall its Lees, and fettle fine in a Night 
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