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red and fiery-looking metal, with which ourshelves, whether in kitchen or elsewhere, are sofrightfully supplied! The metal is copper, poi-sonous and deadly, as many wise housekeepersand cooks are at length beginning to believe; butwhich, still, in defiance of the sun, or by taking ad-vantage of the tenderer light of moon or taper,they continue to use, because peculiarly conducive,in their opinions, to the good colouring and pre-servation of pickles and of conserves. For thelatter, namely, our drinks, behold and examine theprofessed malt and hop decoctions of our publicbreweries—malt and hops! pshaw!—vinegar andbullock's blood. Once more, look, and lookclosely when you are about it, to your cider andperry mills, lest you should purchase your hogs-head of either of these liquors from a mill, in theconstruction of which the metal of lead, anotherof Death's ministers, has been largely employed,and which, when acted upon by the juices of thefruits, communicates to the liquor a poisonousquality. The effects of this carelessness, or obsti-nacy, have been long and seriously felt in cidercounties; in the county of Devonshire more parti-