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Title: A dictionary, practical, theoretical and historical of commerce and commercial navigation
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: McCulloch, J. R. (John Ramsay), 1789-1864
Subjects: McCullock, John Ramsay Commerce
Publisher: London, Longmans
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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of a greyish brown externally, and yellow inter-nally, and when fresh very juicy, sweet, and with-out odour (British Pharmacopoeia, 1867). Theliquorice grown in England is fit for use at theend of 3 years; the roots, when taken up, areeither immediately sold to the brewers druggistsor to common druggists, by whom they are applied to different purposes, or they are packed in sand,like carrots or potatoes, till wanted. Liquorice-root was charged till 1853 with a duty of 5s. percwt., when it became duty free. 5,272 cwts. wereimported in 1867, valued at 6,857/. LIQUORICE JUICE (Succus Liquoritice).Popularly black sugar, the inspissated juice of theroots just mentioned. Yery little of this extractis prepared in Britain, by far the greater part ofour supply being imported from Sicily. The juiceobtained by crushing the roots in a mill, and sub-jecting them to the press, is slowly boiled till itbecomes of a proper consistency, when it is formedinto rolls of a considerable thickness, which are
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U 17 u O C E A N ,.W^: JjvnAori: JionqrriarLS &• Co. LISBON 889 usually covered with bay leaves. This is thestate in which we import it. Most part of it isafterwards redissolved, purified,, and cast intosmall cylindrical rolls of about the thickness of agoose quill, Avhen it is called refined liquorice. Itis then of a glossy black colour, brittle, having asweet mucilaginous taste. It is used in the materiamedica, particularly in coughs, colds &c. Whatis called liquorice paste is an inferior or coarservariety of the same article, mostly brought fromTurkey. (Thomsons Chemistry; Thomsons Dis-pensatory.) The oppressive duty of 3?. 15s. per cwt., withwhich it was loaded down to 1842, was reduced inthat year to 27s. 6d. and in 1853 to 20s. Theduty was repealed altogether in 1860. The imports of juice and paste amounted in 1867to 4,379 and 23,811 cwts., respectively. LISBON. The capital of Portugal, on the N.bank of the Tagus, the observatory of the fortbeing in la

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