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Defcription of the apparatus. Tab. XXV-. 
Fig. i. 
A a retort. 
B a receiver, with a fpout at bottom, for the di~ 
ililling liquor to run into the bottle C; the 
recipient has alfo a fmall opening on one 
fide at D. 
E a crooked tube and 4- of an inch bore. 
F a veffel containing water. 
The crooked tube E is fitted to the fpout D of 
the receiver by means of a cork with a hole in its 
middle, and then well covered with lute; the other 
end of it goes to the bottom of the veffel F, to the 
mouth of which it is fitted by a cork, with a lemi- 
circular notch in it as at G, but without any lute to 
fallen it, as there muft be a fmall vent for the efcape 
of the elaftic air, and this is the only vent in all 
the apparatus for that purpofe. By this apparatus 
the fumes are obliged to pafs through the water in 
F, and there depofit all they contain, except their 
elaflic air. 
In mofl diflillations there is a quantity of air ab- 
forbed at different times during the procefs; and in 
this cafe the external air would prefs on the water 
at F, and force it by the tube into the veffel C, 
which might fpoil the diflilled liquor. This may 
be prevented by letting air into the receiver or bot- 
tle C, by boring a hole through the lute; this how- 
ever may be inconvenient, on account of the con- 
flant attendance which isnecelfary; but the fol- 
lowing apparatus will prevent it. See figure 2 . It 
confifls 
