Footnotes

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Save five per cent. on brewery sales—a war tax.

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By some this construction of a steep may be thought too dear; in that case, a rough wooden one may be substituted, which, instead of placing outside the house, I would place on the upper floor of the malt house, so as to afford the opportunity of getting down its contents to the lower floor by means of a plug hole, which will save the labour of shovelling; but in summer, when this steep is not employed, it should be filled with lime water to prevent leaking, and to keep it sweet.

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Twenty-seven parts of oxygen gas, and seventy-three of azotic gas.

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Count Rumford on the Economy of Fuel.