a provincial phrase of Devonshire, denoting a cheap and easily prepared drink, highly commended for preventing the fever in long voyages, or for the cure of it where it may have been contracted. It is prepared in the following manner: Take twelve gallons of water, in which put three pounds and a half of black spruce: boil it for three hours, and having taken out the fir or spruce, mix with the liquor seven pounds of molasses, and just boil it up; strain it through a sieve, and when milk warm put to it about four spoonfuls of yeast to work it. In two or three days stop the bung of the cask; and in five or six days, when fine, bottle it for drinking. Two gallons of molasses are sufficient for an hogshead of liquor; but if molasses cannot be procured, treacle or coarse sugar will answer the purpose.