332 PROCESS OF MAKING 



XVII. 

 THE 



PROCESS OF MAKING ATTAR, 



OR 



ESSENTIAL OIL OF ROSES. 



BY 



LIEUTENANT COLONEL POLIER. 



r I S HE attar is obtained from the rofes by fimple 

 ■*■ diitillation, and the following is the mode in which 

 I have made it. A quantity of frefh rofes (for example 

 forty pounds) are put in a Hill with fixty pounds of 

 water-, the rofes being left as they are with their calyxes, 

 but with the (teres cut clofe. The mafs is then well 

 mixed together with the hands, and a gentle fire is made 

 under the ftill. When the water begins to grow hot, 

 and fumes to rife, the cap of the ftill is put on, and the 

 pipe fixed : the chinks are then well luted with pafte, 

 and cold water put on the refrigeratory at the top. 

 The receiver is alfo adapted at the end of the pipe; and 

 the fire is continued under the (till, neither too violent 

 nor too weak. When the impregnated water begins to 

 come over, and the ftill is very hot, the fire is leffencd 

 by gentle degrees, and the diftillation continued till 

 thirty pounds of water are come over, which is general- 

 ly done in about four or five hours. This rofe-water 

 is to be poured again on a frefh quantity (forty pounds) 



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