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314 On the Public Brewery.[May

further noticed by any of your correſpondents; and you will believe me to‘be, with every wiſh ſor the ſucceſs of your un- dertaking,; Yours with reſpe&,

We are called on by Mr. J. C. to corre the following Er- rata in the firſt article of the laſt Number, concerning Hat- making./

Page 223, for bowk-pin, read bow-pin.—p. 224, eighth line from bottom, for bJacking, read blocking.—Next line, for clean, read frees.—ſecond line from bottom, for new, read now.—p. 225, line 10, for hand, read hood.—p. 226, line 22» for Cranford, read Cromford.—p. 2275» line 8, for, when it has, read where it had.—p. 225, lat line, for flax, read flocks.

The reader is alſo requeſted to äccept the following amend- ments, The fix diviſions of the manufaQure are technically deſcribed thus.—1 Wool-men,—2 Plaiters,—3 Stuff-men,— 4 Dyers,—5 Stifffeners,—6 Finiſhers.—Page 2245 from“ this is then,” line 13, to“ placed,” line 16, 7ead thus;©“ After the inlayer is placed on one of the bats, and the edges‘of that turned over upwards, theſe(whichare the thinneſt parts in each. bat made purpoſely ſo) meet, and are ſettled into each other, by this means,‘taking the appearance of a flannel bag(Manica Hip- pocratis) and the maſs becomes of an uniform thickneſs.”*—

P22 IO having,” line 10, from bottom, to ſuff- inakét line 8, from bottom, read thus;© Having been ſa minute in the mode of making wool-hats, it will be’ ſufficient to point out the variations from this pra&ice by the plaiters and ſtuff-men.—P. 2271, line 3; for(2 great deal weaker than âyers uſe) read(a little weRker than joiners uſe.) L

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ON THE PUBLIC BREWERY. (Concluded from fp. 203 of our laft Magazine.) XXIV. TJ HE conſumers of mait-liquor may be divided inta

two claſſes: thoſe who make beer, and thoſe who buy it ready-made. As the utenſils neceſfary in the ſmalleſt hrew- ery are bulky, it is not poſſible for any perſon living in a ſmall houſe to make his own beer. Indeed the coſt of theſe utenfils, as well as of the ingredients implies a quantity of capital or credit by no means uſual in a poor man: fince that capital or that credit would naturally be diverted to lift himſelf a degree higher in fociety. Private brewery then implies a power which cannot exiſt but in a higher order; it cannot exiſt probably in any man whoſe income does not exceed(þ) a hundred pounds a year.

(p) Except in the caſe of inferior farmers, whoſe labourers are partly paid in ale, Î queſtion whether private brewery extends ſo low as this fatement-