93 DISTILLATION. 



CHAPTER XX. 



OF DISTILLERIES OF SPIRIT FROM CIDER. 



As these establishments have lately assumed con- 

 siderable importance to the nation as a great and in- 

 creasing source of revenue, and are not liable to many 

 of the objections which exist against the distillation 

 of spirit from grain it may not be amiss to state 

 some facts, founded on incontrovertible authority, to 

 prove, that the farmers of our country may calculate 

 on a certain demand from these distilleries for the 

 products of their orchards, however abundant they 

 may be, without apprehension from the jealousy of 

 rival commercial interests, or the narrow principles 

 of colonial policy, which, in fruitful years, reduce the 

 price of fruit liquor in the cider counties of England 

 so low, as to be insufficient to pay the costs of man- 

 ufacturing the inferior quality. 



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 Of the quantity of cider spirit distilled in the Uni- 



