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 . rate, orthe party are desirous of retiring, the same enticing inducements todetain them are practised as in Europe; so that social moments, wemay see, greatly assimilates man in every country. As distillation occupies the atte
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 . rate, orthe party are desirous of retiring, the same enticing inducements todetain them are practised as in Europe; so that social moments, wemay see, greatly assimilates man in every country. As distillation occupies the attention of multitudes in China, it isgenerally conducted on a limited scale by each individual. Themachinery of a still-house much resembles that in use on the continentof Europe, or what is employed in this country by illicit distillers,with the exception that the head and condenser of the still are of adifferent construction, having no worm-tub. The condensation is effectedby a cylinder full of water surrounding the head, and kept full eitherby a small stream or being poured in by the hand. The head is, forthe most part, globular, with a neck to fit into the breast or body ofthe still. Near the neck, inside the head,, is a gutter from which atube projects through the cylinder of water to convey the condensedvapour into a receiver, as shewn in the annexed ». ,»;:i.::.liriHil^^
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