Of mahjng Cider. 
(mack it contracts by boy ling, but withal 
gives it a high Colour. This way is not to 
be commended, becaule the Juice of the 
Apple is either apt to extra# fome ill fa¬ 
vour from the Brafs or Copper, we being 
not acquainted with any other Veflels to 
boyl it in, or the feces or fediment of it 
apt to burn by its adhering to the (ides of 
the Veflel, it being boy I’d in a naked 
Fire. 
But if you are willing to boyl your C 7 - 
der, your Veflel ought to be of Latten, 
Which may be made large enough to boyl 
a good quantity, the Tin yielding no bad 
Tinfture to the Liquor. The Veflel alfo 
ought to be broad and open, for the more 
expeditious wafting of the aqueous and 
Phlegmatick part of the Liquor, which 
firft flies, in cale the Muft be newly taken 
from thePrels, and the Apples ripened on 
the Tree, ground as (bon as gathered, and 
prefled as foon as ground: For it is not the 
boy ling only, but the fudden wafting of 
the Phlegmatick part, that meliorates the 
remainder * the Spirits in all Liquors reti¬ 
ring and contra#ingthem(elves before Fer- 
Mentation, asinallMufts* And after Fer¬ 
mentation the Spirits become Volatile, 
which is the reafon that moft Liquors are 
M 2 moft 
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