in the wine-trade, the preparing vessels to preserve wines and other liquors, without their growing sour or vapid. The method of doing it is as follows: Melt brimstone in an iron ladle, and when thoroughly melted, dip into it slips of coarse linen-cloth; take these out, and let them cool: this the wine-coopers call a match. Take one of these matches, set one end of it on fire, and put it into the bung-hole of a cask; stop it loosely, and thus suffer the match to burn nearly out: then drive in the bung tight, and set the cask aside for an hour or two. At the end of this time examine the cask, and you will find that the sulphur has communicated a violent pungent and suffocating scent to the cask, with a considerable degree of acidity, which is the gas and acid spirit of the sulphur. The cask may after this be filled with a small wine which has scarce done its fermentation; and bunging it down tight, it will be kept good, and will soon clarify: this is a common and very useful method; for many poor wines could scarce be kept potable even a few months without it.