or improvements, relative to the preparation of beer, the following claim more particular notice; namely, Mr. Dearman's, for his contrivance of mills for grinding malt, in 1779; Mr. Jones's, in 1798, for a machine, calculated to mix malt, or other substances, more intimately with fluids; and Mr. Tickle's, in 1801, for more effectually dissolving and extracting the virtues of malt, hops, and other vegetable substances. As our limits will not permit us to detail these pretensions to ingenuity, we refer the reader to the later volumes of the Repertory of Arts and Manufactures.—In the 15th volume of the same work, we meet with a communication from Mr. Joseph Coppinger, containing a description and plan of a malt and corn-kiln of his invention. He observes, that it is particularly adapted to the use of farmers, who frequently lose considerable quantities of grain during damp or wet seasons, for want of a similar contrivance. Its advantages are stated to be: 1. That it may be erected either in a loft or on the ground-floor, and at one tenth part of the expence. 2. Any kind of fuel may be employed without detriment to the malt or corn dried in it. 3. The heat will be more uniformly distributed, without any waste, as is the case with most of the common kilns. Lastly, the health of the attendants, necessarily employed, will not be exposed to certain injury, in consequence of their breathing, or sleeping in an unwholesome atmosphere; as their beds will be placed in a shed on the outside of the building. This circumstance, being of the greatest importance, deserves serious attention; and we trust that the contrivance here suggested, will be generally adopted. Consistently with our limits, however, we are obliged to refer the inquisitive reader to the volume last mentioned, where the whole process is amply described, and illustrated with an engraving.
Several acts of parliament have been passed, with a view to prevent frauds in the making of malt, which is subject to a duty of six-pence per bushel; and, by the 31 Geo. III. c. 30, §. 15, every kind of malt is prohibited to be imported, on pain of forfeiting both the vessel and cargo, though it may be admitted into British ports provisionally, as His Majesty shall think proper.
Malt-spirits. See Spirits.
MAN, the chief of the animated world, is distinguished from all living creatures by his superior faculties; being possessed of reflection, thought, a power of invention, and an ability of carrying his conceptions or designs into effect. Formed for society, he seldom lives in solitude: and as an emanation of divine light appears to direct all the good actions of mankind, we excel every created being, while we enjoy the exclusive faculty of communicating our ideas, by speech as well as by letters.
Men are divided into classes, chiefly by their colour, that varies according to the situation of the country in which they reside.—See Complexion.—Their bodies are erect, and seldom exceed six feet in height; they are almost naked, excepting a few hairs; and, though Nature has refused a general covering of the skin, man still remains her master-piece; as, conformably to Sacred History, he is the last
