T hat the Juices of Fruits 
edge of their Virtues, they are rather Cor¬ 
dials or Reftoratives, than ordinary Nutri¬ 
ment, or familiar Medicine. 
The Juice of the Apple, Cider, is for 
the fame caufe preferred on this fide the 49 
Degree of Latitude, where the Bloud of 
the Grape obtains not that degree of matu¬ 
rity in the Fruit, as in the more hot Coun¬ 
treys : And the Apple being but a pulpy 
Fruit, not enduring thole exceffive heats 
and droughts thofe Coun treys beyond that 
Degree, and more Southerly, are fubjedc un¬ 
to. It being oblerved, that in Normandy4 
and the Northern parts of France , Flan* 
ders , &c. their Cider far excels their Wines : 
Here in England alio. Cider well made of 
mature Fruits, not onely excels any Wine 
made here, but the Wines that are made in 
the mod parts of France , Germany, or any 
other Countrey on this fide the 40 Degree 
of Latitude. 
The principal caufe of the excellency of 
thele Liquors above any other prepared 
Drinks, is, for that this Juice or Sap is not 
only collected out of the Earth by the final! 
fibrous Roots of the Trees,but exhaled by 
the attracting power of the Sun, into the 
Branches and Stalks, thence defending in¬ 
to the Fruit, where it is by the continual 
