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Phlegm. Barley has very much Oil, and 
but a little efiential Salt. Sugar has in it 
much efiential Salt, and not a little Oil. 
As all thefe Spirits are in daily Ufe with us, 
I fhall confider their Ufe and Effefts pro- 
mifcuoufly. For as the better fort ufe only 
what is called Brandy, fo the poorer mud 
be content with Malt-Spirits, which are 
cheaper, and whofe Faults are, i. Want of 
Age, which gives it an intolerable empy- 
reumatic and fiery Tafte, tho’ fome, pretend 
to take it off* by putting into it dulcified 
Spirit of Nitre. 2. It is of a lower Stan- 
dard than true French Brandy, for this has 
about feven Parts of Phlegm to nine of Spi- 
rits ; that has nine Parts Phlegm to lefs 
than five of Spirits, and very often much 
lefs ; for I caufed twenty Quarts of it to be 
caft into a Still, and we only got two Quarts 
of Spirit, which would all burn away 5 /. e. 
nine Parts Phlegm to one of Spirit. 3. It 
wants that delicious vinous Flavour of true 
Brandy ; this fome attempt to give by put- 
ting dulcified Spirit of Nitre, or young Buds 
of black Currant Berries into it, but the re- 
markable Tafte of the firft, and the abomi- 
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