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high: in France, this was called devant 
& la Fontagne, trom the marquis @f that 
name, who had brought it into vogue in 
the time of Louis XIV.—A certain Er- 
wais at laft found out the art of frizzing the 
wigs; by which means, with a fmall quan- 
tity of hair they appear fuller than they 
could be with even a much greater. The 
bag-wigs firt came into fafhion during 
the regency of the Duke of Orleans, and 
thence obtained the name of perruques a 
la regence. ‘The Emperor Charles VI. 
would allow no ene to be admitted into 
his prefence without a wig with two tails. 
Of amore modern date than wigs ts our 
prefent hair-powder. In the reign of 
“Louis XIV. it was not yet in general 
ufe ; and that king at firft difliked the 
fathion of wearing it. The players are 
faid to have firfi powdered their hair: but 
for a lone time after the introduction of 
eccafion of too abundant a vintage, ma‘e 
_and fold brandy in confiderable quantities. 
that practice, always combed the powder 
out again, as foon as they returned from 
the theatre. . 
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BURYING THE DEAD IN WOOLLEN- 
STUFFS. 
Tue law which eftablifhed this praétice 
is generally believed to have been enacted 
iclely with the view to promote the ftaple 
manufacture of this country. Another 
beneficial confequence, however, flows 
from it, which is of great impottance, 
efpecially at the prefent time, when the 
price of paper and of books is become fo 
enormoufly high. For it appears that, 
by the prohibition to clothe the bedies of 
the dead in linen, at leaft 200,000 pounds 
of rags are annually faved from untimely 
corruption in the grave, and in due time 
pafs into the hands of the manufacturer of 
paper. 

BRANDY. 
THE time of the invention of brandy, or 
ardent fpirit, which has had fo wonderful 
an influence on many arts, on commerce, 
on the habits, health and happinefs of the 
-human race, is not exactly known. That 
the firft was made by the Arabians from 
wine, and thence called winum uffum; that 
Arabian phyficians firlt employed it in the 
ccompofition of medicines ; and that fo late 
as the year 1333 the manner of preparing 
it was very difficult and tedious, and ftill 
confidered by chemilts as a fecret art; it 
appears from the writings of Arnold de 
Ville Neuve [Arueidus ce Villa Nova] 
Raymond Lully, and Theophraftus Pa- 
racelius: and it is without fufiicient reafon 
_thaséfome afcribe the invention to Arnold. 
“Alexander Taffoni relates, that the Mo- 
denefe were the firft who, in Europe, on 
ihe German miners had firft acquired tke 
habit of drinking it; and the great con- 
fumption of and demand for tiis liquor 
foon induced the Venetians to participate 
with the Modenefe in the new lucrative 
art and branchof commerce. However, it 
appears, that brandy did net come into 
general ufe tid towards the end of the. 
fiiteenth century ; and then it was ftill 
called burxt wine. The firft prmted books 
which make mention of brandy, récom- 
mended it as-a prefervative againft molt 
difeafes, and as a means to prolong youth 
and beauty. Similar encemiums have 
been beftowed on tea and coffee; and peo- 
‘ple became fo much habituated to thefe 
liquors, that they at laft daily drank them 
merely on account of their being pleafant 
to their palate. 
Archbifhopric of Cologne, in the firft 
quarter of the fixteenth century, no men- 
‘tion is made of brandy; although it mu& 
certainly have been named there, if it had 
then already been ufed in Weftphalia.— 
William II. Landgrave of Heffe, about 
the commencement cf the fixteenth century, 
ordered that no feller of brandy fhould {uf- 
fer it to be drunken in his houfe—and that 
“no one fhould be allowed to offer it for fale 
: prohibiticn was renewed in 1605. 
before the church-doors on holidays. In 
1524 Philip Landgrave of Heffe totally 
prohibited the vending of burut qwiae.— 
Butin the middie of the fixteenth century, 
when Baccius wrote his Hiffery Wine, 
brandy was everywhere in Italy fold under 
the name of aqua vitis or vite. Under 
King Erick it was intreduced into Swe- 
den. Fora long time this liquor was di- 
ftilled only from fpoilt wine ; afterwards 
from the dregs, &c. of beer and wine ; 
and when inftead of thefe the diftillers em- 
ployed rye, wheat, and barley, it was con- 
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Extrazs from the Paort-Folio of a Man of Letters. I iF eb. ft, 
In the Reformation of the ~ 
fidered asa wicked and unpardonable mif- . 
ufe of corn; it was feared-that brandy 
made from wine would be adulterated with 
malt-{pirits; and an idea prevailed, that 
the grains were noxious to cattle, but ef- 
pecially to fwine; whence ‘originated 
among men that loathfome and contagious 
difeate the leprofy. 
reaions, burnt vine was, in January 1595 
forbidden to be made in the Ele€torate of 
Saxony, except only from wine-lees and 
the dregs of beer. In 1582 brandy was 
prebibited at Frankfurt on the Mayne, be- 
caufe the barber-furgeons had reprefented, 
that it was noxious in the then prevalent 
fatal diforders. From the fame cauife, the 
With 
aftonifhing rapidity has the love of brandy 
and ardent {pirit in general {pread over all 
parts 
Exprefsly. for thefe 
