yo Remarks on the Scotch D''Jl'illery, 



As this heat is produced many feet diftant from any mecha- 

 nical motion, it is mod evident that it is extricated from the 

 air, and will readily unite with the moifture which penetrates 

 the building : the quality of the air introduced into the fur- 

 nace will therefore be in proportion to the quantity of moif- 

 ture taken up; this will-be much more in fummer than in 

 winter, as the temperature of the former exceeds that of the 

 latter. The fenfation, on entering the air-vault in the coldeft 

 months, immediately after flopping the engine, is exactly 

 fimilar to that experienced upon entering a (jrowded room in 

 the hotted fummer day ; the walls are covered with damp, 

 and the fuperior regions of the vault readily obfcure the flame 

 of a candle. The feeling, upon remaining in the air- vault 

 when the engine is at work, is Icfs marked than would be 

 expeded where fo great a compreffion of air exifledj the 

 fenle of hearina:, owintj to the moifture in the conducting me- 

 dium, is confiderably impaired, and refplration is performed 

 with fome difficulty; the light of a candle is faint, and not 

 "eifible at the diftance of a few feet. 



XIV. Some Remarks on the Scotch DiJIillerjy and a Defcrip~ 

 tton of an improved Still, which vitiy be charged and run 

 off Seventy-two Times in Twenty -four Hours *. 



J- PE improvements that have taken place in the com- 

 mon diftillery bufinefs in Scotland within thefe few years 

 are fuch as cannot fail to excite the wonder of men of fci- 

 ence, while they ferve to prove, at the fame time, that, to in- 

 fure progreffive improvement iij any branch, the moft effec- 

 tual mean is that ftimulus which refults from intereft. 



It is not neceffarv, and it would be tedious, to defcribe 

 the progrefs of the diftillery in .Scotland, fince it firft began 

 to aflume a form of fome confcqucnce, about twenty years 

 ago. It may, however, not be thought improper to mention 

 what gave occalion to the licence a6l being introduced into 



* Extrafted from the Report of the Comm'ttee of the Houfe of Com- 

 KV3ns, July 1799. 



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