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Large Tuns of Modern date.
IT is in no small degree curious that this antient mi-
racle of Germany, and the whole continent should be
equalled, and even surpassed in the metropolis of Eng-
land. Mr. Thomas Pennant, in his London, speaking of
the great improvements in the making of wines and
vinegar in this metropolis, observes, there is a magnifi-
cence of business in this ocean of sweets and sours,
that cannot fail exciting the greatest admiration: whether
we consider the number of vessels, or their size, the
boasted tun at Heidelberg does not surpass them. On first
entering the yard, a small distance from Mr. Coade’s,
Narrow Wall, Lambeth, two rise before you, covered at
the top with a thatched dome; between them is a circular
turret, including a winding staircase, which brings you to
their summits, which are above twenty-four feet in dia-
meter. One of these conservatories is full of sweet wine,
and contains fifty-eight thousand one hundred and nine
gallons; or eighteen hundred and fifteen barrels of Win-
chester measure. Its superb associate is full of vinegar,
to the amount of fifty-six thousand seven hundred and
ninety-nine gallons, or seventeen hundred and seventy-
four barrels, of the same standard as the former. The
famous German vessel yields even to the last by the
quantity of forty barrels.
Besides these, there is a double range of lesser vessels,
which hold from thirty-two thousand five hundred, to six-
teen thousand nine hundred and seventy-four gallons
each. After quitting this Brobdignagian scene, we pass
to the acres of ground covered with common barrels: we
cannot diminish our ideas so suddenly, but at first we
imagined we could quaff them off as easily as Gulliver
did the little hogsheads of the kingdom of Lilliput. Mr.
Meux, brewer, of Liquorpond Street, has also a tun, con-
taining four thousand five hundred barrels, besides twen-
ty-four others, which hold thirty-five thousand barrels.
Further
Large Tuns of Modern date.
IT is in no small degree curious that this antient mi-
racle of Germany, and the whole continent should be
equalled, and even surpassed in the metropolis of Eng-
land. Mr. Thomas Pennant, in his London, speaking of
the great improvements in the making of wines and
vinegar in this metropolis, observes, there is a magnifi-
cence of business in this ocean of sweets and sours,
that cannot fail exciting the greatest admiration: whether
we consider the number of vessels, or their size, the
boasted tun at Heidelberg does not surpass them. On first
entering the yard, a small distance from Mr. Coade’s,
Narrow Wall, Lambeth, two rise before you, covered at
the top with a thatched dome; between them is a circular
turret, including a winding staircase, which brings you to
their summits, which are above twenty-four feet in dia-
meter. One of these conservatories is full of sweet wine,
and contains fifty-eight thousand one hundred and nine
gallons; or eighteen hundred and fifteen barrels of Win-
chester measure. Its superb associate is full of vinegar,
to the amount of fifty-six thousand seven hundred and
ninety-nine gallons, or seventeen hundred and seventy-
four barrels, of the same standard as the former. The
famous German vessel yields even to the last by the
quantity of forty barrels.
Besides these, there is a double range of lesser vessels,
which hold from thirty-two thousand five hundred, to six-
teen thousand nine hundred and seventy-four gallons
each. After quitting this Brobdignagian scene, we pass
to the acres of ground covered with common barrels: we
cannot diminish our ideas so suddenly, but at first we
imagined we could quaff them off as easily as Gulliver
did the little hogsheads of the kingdom of Lilliput. Mr.
Meux, brewer, of Liquorpond Street, has also a tun, con-
taining four thousand five hundred barrels, besides twen-
ty-four others, which hold thirty-five thousand barrels.
Further