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not
to
pass
over
without
a
few
remarks,
as
forming
another
source
from
whence
a
considerable
profit
is
derived,
and
by
means
of
which,
it
will
be
seen
a
tolerable
degree
of
imposition
can
be
practised,
is
with
respect
to
the
size
of
bottles.
From
my
long
connexion
with
the
Wine
Trade,
I
have
ne-
cessarily
been
brought
in
contact,
and
become
in-
timately
acquainted,
with
many
Bottle
Merchants,
from
whose
information,
coupled
with
my
own
judgment
and
experience,
I
can
state
several
facts
on
this
head,
which
have
a
near
relation
to
the
ex-
posures
I
have
already
made.
The
bottles,
as
mea-
sured
off,
by
the
workmen
employed
for
the
pur-
pose,
consist
of
six
various
sizes
;
but
which,
as
making
no
real
difference,
still
retain
their
titles
as
applying
to
the
old
measure.
The
terms
by
which
they
are-known
in
the
trade,
are
Full
Quarts,
Small
Fourteens,
Thirteens,
Fifteens,
Fourteens,
Sixteens,
and,
in
giving
a
Scale,
showing
the
relative
number
of
bottles
of
each
size,
required
to
take
three
gal-
lons
of
liquid,
according
to
the
old
measure,
to
fill
them,
and
setting
forth
the
proportionate
alteration,
which
may
be
occasioned
in
the
price
per
dozen,
by
the
use
of
either
size
in
bottling
a pipe
of
Port,
supposed
to
stand
the
Dealer
in 761.
with
all
ex-
pences,
and
allowing
three
gallons
to
be
taken
off
as
bottoms,
it
is
with
the
most
perfect
conviction
that
a
considerable
portion
of
the
mystery
of
our