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CHAP. III. 
Of A R R AC K. 
R ACK, or Arrack, is brought to us 
from the Eaftern World, as Rum is 
from the Weftern ; it is the Produdt of Rice, 
which abounds very much with Oil, and 
grows chiefly on very fat Earth in hot 
Countries, where the Sun’s great Heat, and 
the great Plenty of Sulphur in the Earth, 
caufes a very plentiful Afcenflon of that 
Principle into the Ears of the Grain. 
Rack exceeds Rum much more than that 
did Brandy ; it is more foftening, balfamic, 
reiterative, and amicable to Nature; ufed 
either in Drams or Punch, it makes much 
lefs Wafte and Wear of the fmall VefTels : 
Its chief Principle, next to Phlegm, is a 
fine fubtile Oil, of fuch minute Parts, that 
it readily incorporates with Water ; there- 
fore it is better in all Cafes, where re- 
peated Debauches have worn and abraded 
the internal Surfaces of the Veflels by much 
faline, or other folid Particles, fent into, 
and kept in too large a Proportion in the 
Blood ; or where our Juices are too fharp, 
acrimonious, and pungent. Wherefore Rack 
N 4 fhould 
