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 . ny practicable method for pre- 365 venting the liquid from boiling over, or remaining foul, but a propermanagement of the lire. In Spain, stills are made of copper, as also are the heads and worms;but few of them are tinned. T
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 . ny practicable method for pre- 365 venting the liquid from boiling over, or remaining foul, but a propermanagement of the lire. In Spain, stills are made of copper, as also are the heads and worms;but few of them are tinned. Those in general use, with few excep-tions, differ little from each other in shape, being cylindrical from thebottom to the shoulder, commonly 33 inches in diameter, and the samein altitude, but about two inches deeper in the centre than at the breast of the still is convex, the head is in the form of a com-pressed globe, and the pipe, which connects it with the worm, is joinedto the lowest part of the circumference, where a kind of gutter, orcanal, is formed in the inside, for the purpose of conveying the con-densed liquor to the pipe. The worms are small, only two inchesand a half in diameter at the mouth of the condenser, and fifteen feetin length, making about five circular turns. A correct representationof the whole is given in the annexed The worm-tub is usually from five to seven feet high, and from fourto five feet in diameter; some of them are built round with brick andmortar. The furnaces are like ovens, the bottom of the still fallingabout a foot under the line of the dome, or breast, and about two feetfrom the ground, on which the fuel is laid, without any grate, ash-pit,or stopper to the entrance of the furnace. The still, when chargedwith wine, is run off in about fourteen hours ; but, when rectifying,in about eighteen or twenty-two hours, wood being principally usedfor fuel. Distillation from grain is not practised. The aloe, or pita plant, is
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