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different kinds. In the county there are at pre- 

 sent four distilleries. The contents of the stills 

 amount to 214 gallons. To make good spirits, 

 I have been informed by competent judges, the 

 stills, which are nearly equal, cannot consume, 

 each of them above 60 bolls of malt in the week. 

 But as, from the present construction of the stills, 

 evidently calculated to work them off with the 

 greatest possible dispatch, greater regard seems 

 to be had to profit, than to the quality of the 

 spirits, they may be supposed to consume 90 

 bolls each per week, which will amount to 

 4,680 bolls through the year: and consequently 

 the four stills will use 18,720 bolls annually. 

 Each boll will yield 1 1 gallons of Spirits; so that 

 the whole quantity of whisky produced by the 

 stills in Fife in a year, supposing them to be 

 constantly employed, will amount to 205,920 

 gallons ; and the duty arising from thence will 

 be 21,852 1. per annum. 



Breweries are very numerous in Fife ; though 

 there are none upon a very extensive scale. 

 Besides those in the large towns, there are small 

 ones in almost every village, from which the 

 inhabitants in the immediate neighbourhood are 

 regularly and conveniently supplied with beer. 

 A considerable quantity of strong-ale is made 

 by the principal brewers. The quantity of malt 

 consumed this way, cannot be less than from 

 j 8,000 to 20,000 bolls, besides what is used by 

 private families who brew their own beer. 



A considerable quantity of pot-barley like- 

 wise is made, not less perhaps than 25,000 cwt., 

 which is scarcely one and a fourth cwt. for each 

 family in the county, at a medium, through the 



