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one
of
the
higher
prices
at
which
it is
advertised,
(viz.
at
8*.
per
gallon),
it
takes
twenty
gallons
of
water;
and,
to
allow
the
profit
of
Is.
Gd.
per
gal-
lon,
the
further
addition
of
twenty-seven
gallons
and
three
quarts
more,
of
the
same
liquid,
causing,
a
total
of
forty-seven
gallons
and
three
quarts
of
water;
and
making
up
(within
one
quart)
one
hundred,
and
forty-eight
gallons
of
Gin,
to
sell
at
8*.
per
gallon,
attended
with
a
cash
profit
of
Is.
Qd.
per
gallon.
The
extensive
adulteration
requisite
to
render
such
a
compound
capable
of
being
drank,
as
Gin,
must
be
so
obvious,
that
I
consider
it
superfluous
to
add
more
on
this
part
of
the
subject.
By
an
Act
of
Parliament,
all
individuals
whose
incomes,
convenience,
or
any
other
circumstance,
enables
them
only
to
purchase
their
spirits
in
quan-
tities
of
less
than
two
gallons,
are
obliged
to
resort
to
the
places
at
which
so
much
adulteration
is
practised;
for,
should
they
apply
to
a
Wholesale
Dealer,
and
manage
to
obtain
the
quantity
they
re-
quire
of
what
is
good
and
wholesome,
if
it
be
under
the
relative
profits
considerably
more,
than
stated
on
some
of
the
prices
in this
scale
:
for
the
sake,
however,
of
having
no mis-
statement,
1
have
supposed
the whole,
only
as
laid
down
;
and,
that,
I
am
correct
in
my
assertion
the
fact will
sufficiently
prove,
that
some
Officers
of
Excise
have,
on one
or
two
occasions,
made
seizures
of
Gin
at
as
low
a
strength
as
92
per
cent,
underproof,
concluding
it
to
be
illegal
;
but,
which
was
afterwards
returned,
as
there
is
no
law
to
limit
the
strength
of
this
compound,
in
point
of
weakness.