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Advertisements. 



LAGAVULIN DISTILLERY. 



ISLAND of ISLAY. 



Argyll. 



p properly at th UwiiHwy 



Dist'tlary BottlinJ- 



EXTRA SELECTED 



LAGAVULIN 



GUARANTEED PURE MALT. 

 POT STILL 15 YEARS OLD. 



IT is pure genuine natural whisky, 15 years old, and the quality will 

 gain for it the custom of all connoisseurs of whisky as the best 

 value in the market, its distinguishing feature being softness, 

 bouquet, and great age. 



Besides a few show-cards, the chief method of advertising adopted by 

 the proprietors is small samples of the Lagavulin in miniature bottles. 



The Lagavulin Distillery is the oldest in Islay, the business having 

 been actually commenced in the year 1742. At that period it com- 

 prised ten separate little smuggling bothies clustered together at the 

 foot of the hills, on the shore of Lagavulin Bay, which place was 

 frequently the scene of daring encounters between the smugglers and 

 the Government officers. The old secrets are still preserved. 



The mashman at Lagavulin Distillery has been in the employ for 

 over 55 years, and his father was mashman for 50 years before him, 

 and the grandson has already been 18 years. This is a record hard to 

 beat, and the average service of all the employees is over 25 years 

 many of them over 30 and 40 years in the service. 



The peat used for drying the malt is always kept for three years in a 

 covered shed. 



Along with the malt we mash a certain proportion of young shoots of 

 heather bloom to this is accountable the beautiful bouquet so many 

 have failed to imitate. 



A year's supply of heather in full bloom is cut each September, tied 

 into small bundles, and stored carefully. 



To be had from all First-class Wine Merchants, etc. 



