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

DISTILL.A.TION. 171 with coal; then a woolen blanket, covered with another layer of gravel; then fill up to within eight inches of the top with coal. You may thus have any number of casks, the contents all passing by a tin tube, furnished with funnels under each respective cask, into one c0111mon receiver. The better plan is, to have two series of casks, one above the other; a mixer placed over the upper series of casks, the raw whis– key passing slovvly, by means of a faucet and pipes, into the upper series of casks; passing from the upper series, through faucets, into the lower series, and through the lower series of casks into a common receiver; the whole to be so regulated as to run slowly and evenly through the rectifiers, passing into the receiver in the same volume as out of the mixer; by so doing, the coal remains good for a long time, saving both trouble and expense. vVhen two series of casks or rectifiers are used, the upper rectifiers may be filled entirely with coal (after having placed a woolen blan-