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crease of the quantity of spirits was still more conspicuous in 

 :the English barlej'-. 



jthly, The lirst quantity, viz. six bushels of malt from 

 'this barley, yielded 14'; gallons of spirits, i to 10 abc»ve 

 proof, or 15]- gallons of proof spirits; and, as the malt had 

 ;Come out 9 per cent, in tiie process of malting, the six 

 bushels of barley would also have produced very nearly 1 5I- 

 gallons of spirits, i to 10 above proof. But, as above men- 

 tioned, a few gallons of the , wash wei'e lost in oreriSowing, 

 through the inattention of a servant, and the malt was ground 

 only on a s^.eel mill : 'Iherefore the oxperimeut was repeated. 



6thly, The second quantit3^ of English malt, viz. three 

 •bushels, was brewed vv^ith the utmost care, and was much di- 

 luted, and particularly attended to in tlie whole process, in 

 order to ascertain how much spirits could be produced from 

 half a boll of good English. barley, properly malted, brewed, 

 dililted, fermented, and distilled. The produce was S^ gal- 

 lons, or 19 Scotch pints, i to 10 above proof. As this quan- 

 tity was more than th^s writer had ever seen, or even heard 

 of, as being obtained in Eritain from this VM;ight or measure 

 ;.r>f malt, (he has heard of as much on the continent, when great 

 dilution was used), he measured the spirits in the presence of 

 three witnesses, lirst by the English gallon^ and next by the 

 Scotch pint, 



[t is oniy.necessary here to slate, as cnexause of the great 

 quantity of spirits produced, that he mixed, in a particular 

 stage, one bushel of a very common root, prepared in a par- 

 ticular manner, with the wash of every 12 bushels of malt, 

 (except in .the la:;t case, where he had only one-sixth of a 

 bushel of that root remaining, to mix with tbe w^ash extract- 

 ed from three bushels), and that, in every case, hiG wash was 

 attenuated to O, or completely fermented, and -rendered as 

 light as water, before it was put into the still. And he has 

 FxO doubt that, if , the wi^shvvvere much diluted, and attenu- 

 ated properly, by a small mixture of .the above root, or of 

 any other root whose fermentative life is shorter than that of 

 the wash into which it it; put, a much greater. quantity of spi- 

 .rits would be generally obtained ; perhaps ^ more than is u- 

 sually obtained from, the quarter of grain, by most of the dis- 

 tillers in Britain. 



The following is a short comparative view of the q.uantitv 

 of spirits I to 10 above hydrometer proof, obtained from the 

 epecified quantities of bear, in tlie two first cases ; and in the 

 four last, of the quantity of spirits actually obtained from the 

 malt, and what would have been obtained from the boll of the 

 grain, allowing. for the increase of Bieasurc in the process of 

 ♦naltirg : 



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