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Concerning an excellent Liquor made of a Mixture 
of rough Pears and Crabs. 
' I 'HE Author undertakes to evince, “ That Crabs 
*■* and wild Pears, fuch as grow in the wildeft and 
tc barren Clifts, and on Hills, do make the richeft, 
<c drongeft, the moll pleafant and lading Wines that 
<c England yet yields, or is ever like to yield.” 
“ I have fo well proved it already (lays he) by fo 
ie many hundred Experiments in Herefordshire, that 
<c wife Men tell me, that rhefe Parts of England are 
“ fome hundred thoufand Pounds Sterling the bet- 
“ ter for the Knowledge of it." 
He mentions, of thefe Kinds of auftere Fruit, the 
Bar eland Pear and the Bromsbury Crab, of which 
Notice is taken Page 4th of theTradl intituled Here- 
fordshire Orchards j and intimates, ec That tho’ the 
lC Difcovery of them was but then lately made, yet 
“ they had gotten a great Reputation He adds, 
“ The croft Crab and white or red Horfe pear do 
“ excel them, and all others, known or fpoken of 
<c in other Countries." Of the red Horfe-pear of 
Felton or Longland he obferves, That it has a 
“ pleafant mafeuline Vigour, efpecially in dry 
“ Grounds, and hath a peculiar Quality to over* 
t£ come all Blafts." Of the Quality of the Fruits 
he fays, “ That fuch is the Effect which the Auftc- 
te rity has upon the Mouth on tafting the Liquor, 
“ that the Ruftics declare fis as if the Roof were 
filed away 5 and that “ neither Man, nor Bead, care 
“ to touch one of thefe Pears, tho’ never fo ripe." 
Of the Pear called Imny-Winter , which grows about 
Rojfe (in that County) he obferves, “ That it is of 
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