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 . he machinery, he, in 1827, obtained forthe invention, a patent for the United Kingdom, and immediately afterdisposed of it to some gentlemen in London, and returned to hisnative country. The adaptation of tliis apparatus to di
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 . he machinery, he, in 1827, obtained forthe invention, a patent for the United Kingdom, and immediately afterdisposed of it to some gentlemen in London, and returned to hisnative country. The adaptation of tliis apparatus to distillation in England thendevolved on Mr. Joseph Budworth Sharp, under whose judiciousarrangement and directions, some of the most extensive establish-ments in London, Bristol, Liverpool, and other parts of England,have been worked with great success. One of these stills at therectifying concern of Messrs. J. and W. Nicholson at Clerkenwell,at one operation, produced the enormous quantity of one thousandgallons of gin in one hour, the cleansing and flavouring processes pro-ceeding at the same time. This apparatus was introduced into theWest Indies, and several of the colonies, with, it is said, considerableadvantage, inasmuch as it produced spirits of great strength, with asaving of fuel, puncheons, freight, and shipping-charges, in the expor-tation of rum. &. 637 The foregoing engraving and following description of the appa-ratus, will be found to differ somewhat from those of the paten-tees, as well as from those in the London Encyclopaedia; both ofthese having been published, previously to the system being reducedto practice upon an extended scale of operation. It will be seen by the plate, with a delineation of which Ihave been favoured by Mr. John Rees, a proprietor, that this appara-tus consists of seven coppers placed one above another, numbered inthe section, fig. I.—1 to 7. Eight were originally intended, butseven have been found sufficient; six to contain wash, and
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