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low wines-with corresponding worm refrigera–
tories. It also requires two cisterns, one of
3000 gallons for the lees, or spent wash of
former distillations, called
dunder~
(quaisi re–
dimdar,
SPAN.)
another for the skimmings of
the clarifiers and teaches of the sugar-house;
along with twelve or more fermenting cisterns
or tuns.
"Lees that have been used more than three
or four times are not considered to be equally
fit for exciting fermentation, when mixed with
the sweets, as fresher lees. The wort is made
in Jamaica by adding to 1000 gallons of
diinder
120 gallons of molasses, 720 gallons of skim–
mings,
(==
120 of molasses in sweetness,) and
160 gallons of water; so that there may be in
the liquid nearly twelve per cent. of solid sac–
charum. Another proportion often used is 100
gallons of molasses, 200 gallons of lees, · 300
gallons of skimmings, and 400 gallons of water;
the inixture containing, therefore, fifteen per
cent. of sweets. These two formulre prescribe
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