Show PUNCH bowl an 1784 when the right Hon honorable brable edward Rus russell self was com mander dr in chiet chief of the english forces in the mediterranean at an entertainment given to the fleet by that gentleman the basin of one of the fountains in the garden was turned into a punch u rich bowl and filled with that beverage the e following ingredients 9 were used in its prep cration cra era tion four hogsheads hog of brandy and eight of water twenty five thousand lemons twenty gallons of lime ilme juice thirteen hundred weight of fine lisbon sugar five pounds of grated nutmeg mei meg f three hundred toasted biscuit and a pipe of malaga wine and to complete the arrangement a boat was floating upon it in which was a small boy who rowed around the fountain and filled the cups of the guests and in all probability more than six chousa thousand ud men drank of it |