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

RUM. 125 low wines-with corresponding worm refrigera– tories. It also requires two cisterns, one of 3000 gallons for the lees, or spent wash of former distillations, called dunder~ (quaisi re– dimdar, SPAN.) another for the skimmings of the clarifiers and teaches of the sugar-house; along with twelve or more fermenting cisterns or tuns. "Lees that have been used more than three or four times are not considered to be equally fit for exciting fermentation, when mixed with the sweets, as fresher lees. The wort is made in Jamaica by adding to 1000 gallons of diinder 120 gallons of molasses, 720 gallons of skim– mings, (== 120 of molasses in sweetness,) and 160 gallons of water; so that there may be in the liquid nearly twelve per cent. of solid sac– charum. Another proportion often used is 100 gallons of molasses, 200 gallons of lees, · 300 gallons of skimmings, and 400 gallons of water; the inixture containing, therefore, fifteen per cent. of sweets. These two formulre prescribe 11*