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Excerpt from The Beauties of England and Wales, or Delineations, Topographical, Historical, and Descriptive, of Each County, Vol. 4: Embellished With Engravings The ordinary place of manufacturing cyder is provincially te ed the Pound House; probably from the ancient method of pound ing Or breaking the apples, by nand, with wooden pestles, in a large tub, or trough; a practice still continued in some parts of Cornwall. This building is generally a mean barn, or hovel, without any pe culiarity of form, or trace of contrivance, excepting where the chard'grounds are extensive, and appropriate arrangements are made for the production of the liquor. The Pound House men tioned by Mr. Marshall as the best, with respect to plan, which the nature of a fruit liquor manufactory will admit of, or requires, is described by that gentleman as an oblong square, having behind it a flooring o'r platform of loose stones, to receive the fruit as it is gathered, and to give it the first stage of maturation in the open 'air. The 'gi'ouncl-flooi' of one end of the building contains the mill and press. Over this part is a loft or chamber, in which the apples receive the last stage of 'maturation, and from which they are conveyed by a spout into the mill. The ground-floor of the other end of the building is the fermenting room, sunk a few steps below the floor of the mill and press-room; a' pipe or shoot convey ing the liquor from the press, into a cistern in the fermenting roean16 Devonsnrns. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.