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THE
COMPLETE
PRACTICAL
DISTILLER.
ftion
to
the
other
as
the
price
will
bear,
or
will
answer
the
intentions,
by
such
composition
or
mixture.
If
by
putting
proof
and
weak
goods
together,
the
co-
lour
or
face
of
the
goods
be
spoiled,
which
before
their
being
mixed
together
were
fine,
as
it
frequently
happens,
they
must
be
cleaned
or
fined,
as
when
newly
distilled.
Some
persons
throw
in
about
a
pound
of
alabaster
pow-
der
into
their
mixed
goods,
to
stop
up
the
porous
parts
of
the
flannel
sleeve,
which
fines
them
immediately.
To
recover
any
goods
to
a
better
body
or
strength,
when
too
low
or
weak,
or
fine
cordial
waters,
a
proper
quantity
must
be
put,
by
little
and
little
at
a
time,
of
spirits
of
wine
to
the
goods,
mixing
or
stirring
them
well
together.
They
may
be
perfectly
restored
to
the
desired
proof
with
little
or
no
loss,
because
the
spirits
of
wine
stand
at
about
the
same
price
with
the
cordials,
and
cost
less
than
some
of
the
brandies.
If,
by
chance
or
acci-
dent,
any
goods
happen
to
be
spoiled
in
their
complexion,
especially
genevas,
which
may
be
turned
as
black
as
ink
even
by
an
iron
nail
dropping
into
the
cask,
they
must
be
distilled
over
again,
by
putting
in
half
the
quantity
of the
ingredients
as
usual
;
and
they
will
come
perfectly
fine
as
rock-water
from
the
still,
and
must
be
dulcified
ac-
cording,
just
as
they
were
at
their
first
being
made.
But
the
goods,
notwithstanding
the
misfortune they
met
with,
will
be
much
better
than they
were
before
;
for
by
every
distillation
they
are
weakened
near
1
in
20,
though
im-
proved
in
goodness,
as
before
observed.
Distillers,
when
drawing
off
and
making
up
their
dis-
tilled
goods,
should
be
often
trying
them
in
a
glass
or
phial
;
and
when
the
bead
or
proof
immediately
falls