1860 A Treatise on the Manufacture , Imitation, Adulteration and Reduction of Foreign Wines, Brandies, .

RUM.

RuM is a kind of ardent spirits obtained by distillation from the fermented skimmings of the sugar teaches, inixed with molasses, and diluted with water, and sometimes from the juice of the sugar-cane. The best rum is brought from Jamaica, St. Croix being next in quality. The following account of its mode ·of manufacture is given by Dr. Ure, in his valu– able dictionary on the Arts, Manufactures, and Mines:- "A sugar plantation in Jamaica, or Antigua, which makes 200 hogsheads of sugar of about 16 cwt. each, requires, for the manufacture of its rum, two copper stills-one of 1000 gallons for the wash, and one of 600 gallons for the (124:)

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