Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1859-07-30
CHEMICAL TESTIMONY.

Y.
D. JOSE LUIS CAsAsEcA, CoRRgsPoSDISG MEMBER OF rHR
ROYAL Academies OF MADRID AND NUM- H. A GRADUATE
IN SCIENCES OF FACULTY PARIs PRoFEs-
son or CHEMISTRY, APPLIED RTs, ROYAL
CONSERVATION OF MADRD, PHysIc CHEMISTRY,
As ArrLEp TO the INDUSTRY AND AeRIcrLruRE OF rHE
COUNTRY, IN THE ROYAL UNIVERSITY THIS ISLAND,
PRESENT H. MS DRscroR OF THE INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL
INVESTIGATION, &C., &c,
do hereby certify that the request of the Gog
WILL OF this place. have made analitica examination
Of U. wolfes Aromatic scieam Schnapps with the object
Of asceraining contained any substance noxious
health and 10 inform them to its composition and rea-
tive quality with the other gins that offered in the
ke and the results OF observations and experiments
rs folows:-
Udolpho woes Aromatic schiedam schnapps spirit
uous liquid, of very agreeable aromatic odor, completely
Transparent and almost cocriess having only very slight
TINT yeowsh gray its flavor strong and very agreeable
to the palate 1t marks 20 degrees in Carriers alcohol
weigher So degrees hundredth in Gay Lussacs aco-
metre By the distillaton in baaium maria, with ap-
paratu consisting of glass reort and recipient surround
ed with ice have collected in this recipient alcoholic liquid
with agreeable completely coorless
parent which marked 90 degrees in Carriers alcoholic weigh
10 degrees hundredth Gay Lussae's acometre
and which represented whole 81 per cent Aromatic
Schedam schnapps subject to disaton in the This
liquid did not soil the transparency Of the distilled water In
mixing it with the same agreeable aroma doubtless
due to trng amount of essential oil nseparable
from alcohol
From the remainder Of the disiaton which was left in tho
reort have obtained through evaporation vapor bath
substance of yelowish brown color clear and having
bitter taste which is not dsagreeabe and which afterwards
becomes aromatic and leaves the mouth perumed with that
fragrance peculiar to the vanilla Inclined to believe
that to this bitter and aromatic extacve substance soluble
tributed to this gin due have not found In Udopho
wolfe's Aromatic Soedam Schnapps any mineral organ
c substance other than the exacve already named and
the obtained by dstiatiOn. Finally Udopho
Wofes Aromatic schedam Schnapps consists simply Of
aromatic alcohol Of 20 degrees graduation in Carriers
0c weigher and Of extractye bitter aromatic substance
which perhaps, is medena and account Of its not
tanning matter injurious 10 the health well for its
odOr and good havora fact which doubt from tho
choice substances employed In its manufacture and from the
peculiar Of its distllaton, should in my opinion
he preferred all the Hoadu egc aud German gins which
found in this Island which has been my business
anime These gins as have often proved it, exhae dsa-
greeabe odqr and have less dsagreeabe favor,
Of them having left the with tn superior
gin from the dstery of Mr. Henry Deeen (o Rremenl
resdum after evaporation by stea substance almost
cpd and very trhngy aromatic, with favor Of VANILLA but
10 wise with the delicious bitter and aromatic favor Of that
Of Udopho Wolfe; and others, such that labelled Genune
Samaritan extra SUPERIOR Messrs TEACHER have furnish
cd very small quantity Of geensh substance of harsh
metallic very dsagreeabe which extractive organic
matter mixed with salt Of copper, with signs OF iron
owing perhaps, to bad system of distillatton.
certify that all that is here stated the truth agrees
with the experiments have made with the greatest and
authorize the house Gotg WILL Of this city, 10 give
publicity to this certificate, in Spanish and In foreign Lam
in all countries whore snlt their interest do
so. JOSE LUIS OASASECA.
HAVANA, JANUARY, 1859.