best
construction of Breweries and Malt Houses in this country; the French
mode of tanning the heaviest Soal Leather in twenty-one days, and Calf
Skins in three or four--highly important.
By Joseph Coppinger, Practical Brewer."

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ADVERTISEMENT.

Since writing the Preface, I have been induced to make an addition to
this little work, in order to increase its usefulness, by giving the
French mode of tanning, as practised by the famous Mr. Seguine. Of such
importance did the Academy of Arts and Sciences at Paris consider this
improvement, that they thought it worth while to appoint a committee of
their own members to go down to one of the provinces where this
gentleman resides, and there, on the spot, superintend his operations,
which they did with minute attention; and it is from the journal of
their reports to the academy, that the different processes of tanning
leather in this ingenious artist's way are here given; an improvement
that can, no doubt, be successfully applied to that important
manufacture in this country, affording the tanner the opportunity of
turning his capital twelve or fourteen times in a year, instead of
once. This single advantage alone so forcibly recommends its adoption,
particularly in a country like ours, where capital is scarce, that
further comment is unnecessary. I have also added the Bordeaux method
of making and preparing claret wine for shipping, as practised in that
city and its vicinity; which practice may possibly hereafter be
successfully applied to the red wines of this country. The more so,
when it is known that in the reign of Louis XVI., the merchants of
Bordeaux presented a memorial to that monarch, praying him to put a
stop to the importation of the wines of Kaskaskias into France, as
likely, if permitted, to b