If the reader would be informed what
my reasons were for appearing in print, I shall candidly acknowledge,
that the great prospect of a considerable advantage to myself was
indeed the strongest persuasive; but I can with equal truth affirm,
that it affords me no small pleasure to think I am doing my country at
the same time a very great piece of service; and doubt not but that,
as many will soon experience it, my labour will be thankfully received
and acknowledged.
Discoveries and Improvements ought not to be concealed; the public
good calls loudly for them; but then, in return for the great
advantage the public receives from them, the author of any such
discovery may with the greatest justice claim an adequate reward.
PREFACE
The following Receipts and Directions are not collected from books,
nor interspersed with old women's nostrums; but they are, in very
truth, the result of my own LONG EXPERIENCE in trade, founded on
chemical principles, which are principles of never-erring nature.
Perhaps I had never thought of this Method of communicating my little
knowledge, had it not been for many gentlemen in the counties of
_Gloucester, Hereford, Worcester_, &c. for whom I have done a great
deal of business, in the cyder-way particularly; and who have often
express'd their desire of seeing my directions for the management of
cyders, &c.
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