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SPECIAL DISTILLATIONS.

OBSERVATIONS ON DISTILLATIONS OF A SPE- CIAL CHARACTER, AND ON THE SELECTION OF APPARATUS MOST USEFUL. There are numerous vegetables capable of furnishing elements for fermentation, and we may say that special distillations are equally as numerous. In another part of this work it must have been remarked that the nature of the wine operated upon, and the taste which it is ne- cessary to give to the spirits, may command some par- ticular mode of working to be followed, according as the tastes and flavours are to be removed or left in the pro- duce. Still, if the system upon which the means of correcting or preserving are founded has been well con- ceived, it must infallibly have been remarked that these belong to the process of rectification ; that is, to all mechanical operations the object of which is to give to alcohol a greater concentration. It is evident that the object of improved apparatus being to effect the rectification of spirits with greater economy, in this respect the choice of apparatus is not attended with difficulty, and that such as present the most economical advantages must be preferred. In fact, if the object of those improved systems is to produce at once spirits at the highest strength required, they are equally proper for the preparation of spirits at a lower standard. It is thus that an improved apparatus may be used for the purpose of preparing three-six and proof goods with