An Essay on the Inventions and Customs of Both Ancients and Moderns in the Use of Inebriating Liquors: Interspersed with Interesting Anecdotes, Illustrative of the Manners and Habits of the Principal Nations of the World, with an Historical View of the Ex

Excerpt from An Essay on the Inventions and Customs of Both Ancients and Moderns in the Use of Inebriating Liquors: Interspersed With Interesting Anecdotes, Illustrative of the Manners and Habits of the Principal Nations of the World, With an Historical View of the Extent and Practice of Distillation, Both as It Relates to Commerce and as a Source of National Income: C

Since this book was put to press, the saccharo meter of Mr. Allan, (see page which is the one mentioned in the act of 4 Geo. 4. Cap. Has been laid aside, and a new one substituted in its place, by an order of the Lords of the Treasury, dated 17th October, 1823. It is called Bate's saccharometer, from the name of the maker, Ro bert Brettell Bate, of London; and appears to be an instrument well calculated to answer all the purposes intended.

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