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A TREATISE ON
· Should stand at least ten days before using, and
even two or three months greatly improves it.
Wliskey,
common.-See Appendix.
FOREIGN WINES.
Of
ell
liquors, Wine seems to be the most ancient.
Even (as it
is
supposed) 2348 years before
OM-Ut,
"Noah planted a vineyard, and he drank of the
wine and was drunken." This seems to be the ear–
liest reliable date at which mention is made of fer–
mented liquors. Though earlier profane and my–
thological historians speak of wine, there is nothing
reliable in their writings on which to base correct
conclusions. The earliest period at which wine was
submitted
to
distillation is undecided.
By
some,
the Chinese are thought to have possessed the ear–
liest knowledge of this process ; others claim the
northern nations of Europe as the first to apply the
principle of distillation.
Herodotus, however, mentions
date-spirit.a~
as an
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