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Title: 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
Year: 1838 (1830s)
Authors: Morewood, Samuel
Subjects: Liquors Distillation Opium
Publisher: Dublin, W. Curry, jun. and company, and W. Carson (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
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e given, that the societies areprogressing with vigour and efficiency. It must be admitted that few countries required a greater regene-ration in point of sobriety, and it is much to their credit that theyhave as yet surpassed all other nations, who have followed theirexample in this work of reformation. The proximity of Canada to the United States, has rendered thepropensities of drinking familiar and habitual to many of the inhabi-tants, among whom the practice of manufacturing liquors is pursuednearly in the same manner, but the trade is not equally extensive. Numbers of distilleries are now to be found both in Upper and LowerCanada. The Canadian distilleries are mostly made of wood andworked by steam. On the river Humber, seven miles from the cityof Toronto, a distillery has been erected by Mr. Robson, with adescription and drawing of which I have been favoured by a gentlemanlately resident in that country ; and the annexed engraving has beenexpressly executed for this work. * 342
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343 A is the brick work, in which the iron hotter, with a cylindricalflue running through the centre, is inserted. B and C are the firstand second wooden stills of the same size, being 4 feet 8 inches atbottom and 4 feet, 6 inches at top, with an altitude of 6 feet. D isthe doubling or low wines still, 2 feet 10 inches at bottom, and 2 feet4 inches at top, the altitude being 3 feet, 9 inches. E is the worm-tub, 6 feet at bottom, 5 feet at top, and 9 feet in altitude, supplied bya copious stream of water. F the low wines and feints receiver. Gis the recipient for the spirits previous to passing through the recti-fiers or filtering vessels, and is 2 feet at bottom, 2 feet, 4 inches attop, by 2 feet in height. The top diameter of H and I is 2 and thebottom 3 feet; the altitude being 5 feet. The vessels (H and I) arefilled with charcoal and other material through which the liquor gra-dually descends in a limpid, gently-flowing current into J, the finalreceiver or store cask. K is a tank o

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