MEDICAL PROPERTIES OP THE CASHEW-NUT TREE. 137 
occupied with schemes of general utility, calculated to pro- 
mote the comforts or add to the happiness of his fellow- 
creatures. 
After a number of experiments, attended with a con- 
siderable diversity of success, he at last produced a very 
palatable wine ; and, had it pleased Heaven to have spared 
his valuable life a few years longer to his young family and 
his fellow-creatures, there can belittle doubt that he would 
have carried the manufacture of this excellent wine to a 
still higher degree of perfection. 
The following is the process which he found to answer 
best, and which he commnnicated to me a short time 
before the premature termination of his valuable life in 1814 : 
"Mix two parts of the expressed juice of the fruit with 
one part of water ; putting to every gallon of juice three 
and a half pounds of the best sugar, and to every gallon 
of water four pounds ; and adding six gills of lime juice for 
every eight pounds of sugar. Bung the cask down tight 
before the fermentation has wholly subsided, and fine in 
the usual way with eggs." 
As standing long upon the lees is apt to communicate, a 
disagreeable bitter taste to the wine, not afterwards to be 
got rid of, it might be an improvement upon Mr. Tobin's 
plan, to rack it oft' into a clean cask before the fermentation 
has wholly subsided, and then to bung the cask tight down; 
and a further improvement might be perhaps effected by add- 
ing some of the extract of the Krameria triandra, which 
grows in South America, and is employed by the wine 
merchants in Oporto to improve the quality and heighten 
the colour of their port wines. A species of the same genus 
also, the Krameria ixina, grows in Hayti and St. Kitts, the 
roots of which, no doubt, possess properties similar to those 
of the species found upon the Spanish main, the medicinal 
properties of which were so highly eulogized by the late Dr. 
Rees, under the name of Rhatany Extract. The Krameria 
ixina, whose existence in St. Kitts has escaped the notice of 
