A philosophical and statistical history of the inventions and customes of ancient and modern nations in the manufacture and use of inebriating liquors; with the present practice of distillation in all its varieties: together with an extensive illustration of the consumption and effects of opium, and other stimulants used in the East, as substitutes for wine and spirits . thin piece is daily cut from its vertex, bywhich means the juice trickles copiously in proportion to the healthystate of the tree and the congeniality of the atmosphere. The indigenous growth of the palm seems to be circumscri
A philosophical and statistical history of the inventions and customes of ancient and modern nations in the manufacture and use of inebriating liquors; with the present practice of distillation in all its varieties: together with an extensive illustration of the consumption and effects of opium, and other stimulants used in the East, as substitutes for wine and spirits . thin piece is daily cut from its vertex, bywhich means the juice trickles copiously in proportion to the healthystate of the tree and the congeniality of the atmosphere. The indigenous growth of the palm seems to be circumscribed byparallels of latitude, twenty five degrees equidistant from the equator ;hence this zone excludes all Europe, and many portions of Asia,Africa, and America. But while providence has bestowed thisinvaluable production on the inhabitants within those boundaries, ithas compensated other countries lying beyond them with the luxuryof the vine, so nicely balanced are the gifts of our impartial andmunificent Creator. Though arrack, among the Cingalese, has, from time immemorial,been a common drink of the country, yet their method of manufac-turing it is rude, and indicates an ignorance of chemical knowledge. 186 The still employed for this purpose is of earthenware and of the sim-plest construction: the subjoined is a true representation of the one inareneral A. b. is the alembic and capital luted together. D. e. a refrigera-tory and receiver of one piece, and the latter connected with the headby a bamboo, c. The British settled at Columbo, as well as in other parts of theisland, have introduced the modern European improvements in thisbranch of business, but the natives, tenacious of their old arts, seeminsensible of such advantages and continue to use their own rudeapparatus. In this, however, they are not more singular than in theexercise of other arts, which continue to be practised by them as theyhave existed from the most remote antiquity. They cannot even beprevailed
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