10-2 Of making Cider. 
After your Liquors are thus purified and 
drawn off, they are to be enclofed in fome 
Veffel for fome Weeks or Months, accor¬ 
ding as the nature of the Liquor or your 
occafions will permit or require. Before 
that be done, it will not be amifs to infert 
fome obfervations concerning Veflels. 
SECT. IV. 
Of VeJfel s for the keeping and preferving of 
Cider. 
It hath been no fmall occafion of the 
badnefs of this Liquor, and thereby gi¬ 
ving it an ill name, that it hath been ufu- 
ally ill treated, and entertained ( after it 
hath been indifferently well made ) in ill- 
fhaped, corrupt, faulty and unfound Vef- 
fels$ Vinous Liquors being full of Wild 
Spirits thateafily find Vents,through which 
the Air corrupts the whole remaining Bo¬ 
dy, and alio more eafily, efpecially the 
Cider , like the Apple, attracting any ill 
favor from theVeflel. Therefore care is 
to be taken about the choife of them. 
It hath been obferved, that the larger 
any Veflels are, the better Liquors are pre- 
ferved in them. In fome forreign Coun¬ 
tries 
