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Gin-shop
and
Wholesale
cheap
Wine
venders,
that
the
Full
Quarts
are
in
more
general
use
for
Spirits,
and
that
the
remaining
sizes,
with but
very
few
exceptions
indeed,
are
purchased
by
the
respect-
able
Wine
Merchant,
the
Wine
Cooper,
and
those
of
the
Gin-shop-keepers,
who
serve,
as
they
would
be
served.
Leaving,
however,
in
the
hands
of
my
Readers,
the
many
inferences
that
may
be
drawn
from
this
plan
of
defrauding
the
Public,
of
their
fair
and
reasonable
measure,*
I
will
now
commence
as
to
the
adulterations
of
PORT
WINE.
The
most
usual
mode
of
adulterating
this
Wine,
may
be
said
to
consist, in
admixing
with
whatever
*
In
treating
on
this
subject
of
short
measure,
with
regard
to
bottles,
it
may
not
be
amiss
to
mention
a
circumstance
relating
to
a
part
of
the
profits
of
many
of
our
modern
Gin-shop-keepers,
arising
from
a
mode
they
have
of
cheating
their
poor
dram-
drinkers,
out
of
their
fair
allowance
of
Gin,
&c.
It
bespeaks
the
state
of
refinement,
to
which
their
ingenuity
has
arrived,
in
this
re-
spect,
and
the
fact
is,
of
itself,
not
a
little
curious.
The
means
by
which
a
certain
additional
profit
is
obtained,
is
technically
called
in
the
trade
'
by
the
turn
of
the
glass,'
and
may
be
thus
explained.
The
glasses
made
use
of
for
the
poor
peo-
ple,
to
drink
their
Spirits
from,
are
shaped
thus;
the
counter
of
the
bar
is
covered
with
lead,
perforated
with
holes,
having
a
com-
munication
with
a
'cask.
Now
as
for
ob-
vious
reasons,
the
glasses,
although
scarcely
holding
the
measure
when
filled
to
the
brim,
are
seldom
so
filled,
at
least
to
within