2G4 ON COLONIAL WINES. 
is given, it is the mean of two or three distillations of 
the same samples with the same instruments. 
Namo of Wine Distilled. 
Hydrometer Used. 
Percent, 
of Proof 
Mean. 
Age of 
Wine. 
Spirit. 
1. Temprana 
Gay-Lussac 
274) 
26-86 
Sykes' scale 
Long's balance . . 
27-5 
26-0 
1867 
1. Temprana, No. 1 \ 
f Gay-Lussac 
23-6 ; 
hhd. for England j 
\ Sykes' scale 
25-7 
24-66 
— 
ino. z nna. 
f Long's balance 1 
\ and slide ruler J 
24-7 
3. Po. No. 3 hhd. . . 
Gay-Lussac 
25-3 : 
Sykes' scale 
Long's balance . . 
25-8 
25-3 
25-46 
— 
Verdeilho, No. 1 
Gay-Lussac 
23-6 
Sykes' scale 
Long's balance . . 
22-6 
22-7 
22-9 
Do. No. 2 .. 
Gay-Lussac 
Sykes' scale 
Long's balance . . 
23-6) 
23-0 
23-4 
23-3 
— 
Do. No. 3 . . 
Gay-Lussac 
23-6) 
Sykes' scale 
23-0 [ 
23-3 
_ 
Long's balance . . 
23-4J 
Temprana, No. 4 . . 
Gay-Lussac 
25-3' 
25-3 
1867 
Sykes' scale 
Long's balance . . 
25-7 
25-9 
Eed Wine, No. 1 
Gay-Lussac 
Sykes' scale 
21-9 
21-2 
21-5 
1867 
Do. No. 2 .. 
Gay-Lussac 
Sykes' scale 
21-9 
21-2 ; 
21-5 
1867 
Grenache, No. 1 
Gay-Lussac 
23-6 
f 
23-4 
1867 
Sykes' scale 
23-2 
Do. No. 2 .. 
Gay-Lussac 
21-9 
f 
21-8 
1867 
Sykes' scale 
21-8 
Keisling 
Gay-Lussac , . 
23-6 
22-9 
1869 
Sykes' scale 
222 
f 
Verdeilho 
Gay-Lussac 
28-8 
\ 
28-3 
1869 
Sykes' scale 
Sykes' scale . . 
27-8 
Palomino Blanco 
21-0 
I 
21-4 
1869 
Long's balance . . 
21-8 
J 
Temprana 
Gay-Lussac 
27-0 
} 
25-9 
1869 
Long's balance . . 
24-8 
Temprana, soon after 
Gay-Lussac 
23-6 
23-3 
1869 
its first fermentation 
Sykes' scale 
23-1 
Eed Wines, Nos.'l & 2 
Long's balance . . 
Sykes' scale 
23-3 
} 
23-0 
1869 
22-7 
Grenache 
Gay-Lussac 
Sykes' scale 
25-3 
24-6 
} 
24-9 
1869 
Taking the total as obtained by all the several 
instruments used, it is 24*265 ; but if we pick out 
