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CHAP. II. 
Of R U M. 
IT) U M is another fpirituous Liquor, of- 
ten ufed in Punch ; it is made in the 
Weft-Indies of Sugar Canes, and is of a 
ftronger Body than Brandy ; i. e. it contains 
a larger Quantity of Oil, and lefs Phlegm 
and Salt : Its Oil is lefs attenuated and fub- 
tilized, whereby its volatile Salts are more 
embarraffed and fheathed up. Neither is 
its Oil reduced to fuch minute and fubtile 
Particles, either becaufe the Canes were lefs 
fermented with the Water, or becaufe the 
Oil and Salt of this Cane are more vifcid 
and grofs, than thofe of the Moloffos drawn 
from the Sugar, which has undergone the 
fundry neceffary Operations, and has been 
thoroughly fermented afterwards. For al~ 
tho’ all thoroughly fermented Liquors afford 
much more Spirit, in Proportion to their 
Body and Kind, than the lefs fermented ; 
yet it is certain, that the fundry Operations 
Sugar undergoes in the making, may, and 
does break, attenuate, feparate, and divide 
the Principles in the Moloffos (though the 
groffeft 
