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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17748, 27 April 1923, Page 4

Here are some particulars of an extraordinary punch brew wliioh took place on October 25th, 1694. It was mnde at the bouse of the Right Hon. EdXrard Russell, Commander-in-Chief of his Maiestv's Forces in the Mediterranean. i, was used as a bowl, and in it the following ingredients were" poured:—Four hogsheads of brandy, 25,000 lemons, twenty gallons of lime juice, 1300cwt of white Lisbon sugar, 61b or grated nutmegs, 300 toasted biscuits, and one pipe of dry mountain Malaga. Here, indieed, was a punch-bowl worthy of the heroes of the seventeenth century. A boat waa specially built so that a boy might row about in it and fill _ the cups of the assembled' guests, which, aooording to an authority, probably numbered more than 6QOO men _ fountain, plaoed' where four