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been reduced to seventeen per cent, underproof (the lowest strength at which government allows it to be sold), by the addition of seventeen gallons of water, with a larger proportion of Colouring, Extract of Almond Cake, Cherry-laurel Water, and Extract of Capsicums, it will have cost only 18*. 3d. per gallon, as the following will show. Example 2 : 100 gals, of proof made-up Brandy, as in Example L. s. d. the first, at II. Is. 4d. T 5 <& . . . 106 16 6 17 gals, of Water. 20 (| pint of Colouring \ 117)2136(18. 3> I \ pintofEx. of Almond Cake I g als - 117 per gal. *U pintof Cherry-laurel Water f additionaK 966 1| pintofEx. of Capsicums j 936 117 gals, of Brandy, seventeen per cent. ui- 30

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* The quantity of the article increased by these ingred'ients pays their expense.

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351 15 4 60

The reader will also perceive, by the calculation in example the first, that, by increasing or diminish- ing the different proportions of either one or the other of the articles used, a corresponding difference in the cost price, may be obtained accordingly. Thus, by adding twenty or twenty-five gallons of water, instead of seventeen, with a still greater proportion of the flavoring ingredients mentioned, to the 100 gallons of proof made-up Brandy, we have the prices reduced to (8*. and 17s. Id. per- c