1857 The Bordeaux wine and liquor dealers' guide

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iwi;tu;te. This is the basis of the theory on which this work is founded. It is well known to the trade, and generally sup– posed by those not engaged in the sale of liquors, that adulteration is carried on to a very great extent in the United States, as well as in England. In France also, the source of more than three fourths of the liquors imported to this .country, it is conduct– ed on an extensive scale, though in a different and less objectionable manner. The systems in use in England and in the United States have been of a character to condemn the practice. Drugs of a de– leterious nature and possessed of qualities poisonous in the extreme, have been, and are now more or less in use, though the system has been gradually under– going a cha.nge for the bettel'. The French have been the first to inaugu:rate, in the expensive pro– ducts of their vineyards and distilleries, a system of adulteration th.11.t, if properly undererood, would place imitation liquors in a new light altogether. This system has been but little understood in this country, and the knowledge has been confined to a few individuals. Although the adulteration of liquors has been generally condemned BB pernicious in the effect produced, still it ~ h

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