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96} cr£ Cream is an agreeable and very nourishing article of food, when fresh 5 but too fat and difficult to be digested by persons of a sedent- ary life, or possessed of a weak stomach. It is nevertheless of considerable service in medicine, as a lenient (though palliative) appli- cation to tetters and erysipelas, which are attended with pain, and proceed from acrid humours. A viethod nf preserving cream : Take 12 ounces of white sugar, and dissolve them in the smallest possible quantity of water, over a moderate fire. After the solu- tion has tafoift place, the sugar ought to be boiled for about two minutes in an earthen vessel ; when 12 ounces of new cream should be immediately added, and the whole uniformly mixed, while hot. Let it then gradually cool, and pour ft into a bottle, which must be carefully corked. If kept in a cool place, and not exposed to the air, it may be preserved in a sweet States for several weeks, and icven months. Cream ofT.RTAR. SeeTARTAR. CREDIT, in commerce, a mu- tual trust, or loan of merchandize, or money, on the rqmtation of the property or solvency of a dealer. Credit is either public or private. Every trader ought to possess some estate, stoek, or portion of his own property, sufficient to carry on the traffic in which he. is engaged : his dealings should also never exceed his capital, so that no disappoint- ment in his returns may incapa- citate him from supporting his cre- dit. Yet traders of worth and judg- ment, may sometimes be oblig- ed to borrow money, in order to carry on their business to the host- advantage. We. cannot, however, avoid observing, that the almost CRE unlimited credit given to wholesale, as well as retail traders, is by no means a prudential, or even justi- fiable practice 3 for it not only tends to encourage the most shameful monopoly carried on, at present, with many articles, both of subsist- ence and convenience (for instance, those of bread-corn and paper) ; but here also we may discover the prolific source of those bankrupt- cies which swell every Tuesday's and Saturday's Gazette. The pi/1 lie national credit is said to run high, when the commodi- ties of that nation are readily sold at a good price, and when dealer* may be safely entrusted with them : also, when houses and lands meet, with ready purchasers ; money is borrowed at a low interest ; and, lastly, when notes, mortgages, &c. will pass as currently as money. Private credit has no accurate scale, and depends entirely on the mutual confidence of the parties. When it is extended beyond a cer- tain length, without proper con- troul (as is too frequently the case with families of a certain rank, or fnsiiion), we may safely predict, that the following generally are its concomitant effect*, viz. inferior goods, higher charges, inaccurate calculations, and law-suits, which dissolve all future connection. CRE1SS, or Cresses, Sisymbrium. L. a genus of plants, consisting of forty-one species, eight of which are natives : the principal of these are : 1 . The Nasturtium, or common water-cress, which is found in springs, brooks, and rivulets. It is perennial, and produces white flowers that are in bloom in June or July. The leaves have a mo- derately pungent taste, and pene- trating smell, somewhat similar to, though