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are employed with Oil of Turpentine. They are all exceedingly powerful, and the proportions made use of, with the rest of the materials, (previously to their having 1 undergone any change,) seldom ex- ceed a quarter of an ounce of the Oils of Cassia, Carraways, and Almonds; and of the Oil of Juni- per, one ounce. With the nature and properties of the Extracts of Capsicums, and Grains of Paradise, my Readers are already acquainted. They are added, with the other ingredients, to the 100 gallons of made up Gin, (if reduced to the lowest price,) in quanti- ties of about a quart of either. That the proportions of the different ingredients I have named, are varied according to the judg- ments and tastes of the Advertising Wholesale Dealer or Gin-shop-keeper, as well, as that, some- times several articles are struck out altogether, or their places supplied by others equally deleterious, there can be little doubt ; but, that the materials are as numerous, and used in as considerable quan- requires forty-eight gal- lons of water to reduce 100 gallons of Gin, pur- chased at its cheapest rate, to one of the prices at which it is advertised, (that at 6*. Qd. per gal- and the still further addition of forty -four tities, is proved beyond all question, by this simple calculation : it lon,)

more of water (making a total of ninety-

gallons

two gallons), to allow of the profit

of Is. 6d. per

gallon. This alone must be conclusive to every mind,