Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1859-05-26
CHEMICAL TESTIMONY.

d. JOSH LUIS CAsAsEcA, Corresponding Member of the
Soyal Academies OF Madrid and Munich Graduate in
science Of the Faculty of Paris, formerly Professor of
chemistry, as applied to the Arts of the ROYAL Con-
serVaorio Of Nadrid and of Physic and Chemistry as
appeG TO the Industry and Ayr culture of tn Country,
IN the Royal University of this Island at present H.
Ms Director ofthe Institute of Chemical stgaon
&c, &c.
Do hereby certify that at the request of the house OF Got
w WIN, oil TINS place, l have made an analitical
examination of [. Wolf IS Aromatic Schiedam Sehnapps
win the object Of asceraining if it contained any sub
stance hoxous to health, and inform them to its
true composition and relative quality with the other gins
that are offered in tie market and the results OF my
observations and experiments are as follows ET
cdolpho Wolfe's aromatic Schiedam Schnapp is a
spirituous liquid, Of very agreeable aromatic ndor
completely Transparent and almost cooress having only
very slight tint Of yellowish gray its favor is strong
ana very agreeable to the palate 1t marks 20 degrees in
Cartler's alcohol weigher So degrees hurdredh in
Gay lMssac's achometre. By the disati in balai-
um m"ria with an apparatus consisting of glass retort
and recipient surrounded with ice have collected In
this recipient in ale holic liquid with very agreeable
aroma completely colort and transparent which reple
sehted as whole ~ per cent of aromatic Schidam Sch
napps subject to distiIlation in the Teo t. rms LIQUID
dld not soil the transparency of the distilled water in
mixing it with the same and its agreeable aroma Is
doubtless due to very tihng on all essential oil
inseparabe from alcohol
From the remainder of the distiaon which was left in
the retort, have obtained, through evaporation in
vapor BATH substance of yeowish brown color clear
and having bitter taste which net Isaereeabe and
which afterwards becon aromatic and leaves the mouth
peftuned with that fragrance peculiar to the vanilla /
am Inclined to believe that this bitter and aromatic
eXractve substance, soluble in water and alcohol the
medicinal properties which attributed to this I'm are
due. have not found in udolpho Wolfe's aromatic
Schiedam schnapps any mineral or organic substance
other than the extrace already named the aro-
matte one obtained by dstillatou Finally Udolpho
oifes aromatic Schiedam schnapps consists simpy Of
an aromatic alcohol Of 20 degrees of graduation in arti
crs acohoc weigher and of eXracve bitter aromatic
substance, which perhaps, is medicinal and on account
OF It's not containing any matter injurious to the health
as well for its udor and good favor-a fact which no
doubt arises from the choice substances employed in its
manufacture, and from the peculiar manner of its dis ia
io soud IN my 0p'niOu BE- preferred to all the Hol-
iani, Beige ana German gins which found in this
slahd Which has been my business TO examine These
gins Is have often proved it, exale disagreeabe odor
ana nave moe or less dsagreeabe favor some of
having et as was the with the superior gin from the
ulstry OF Mr. Henry Deejen t0f Br men) us residum
ater evaporation by steam, substance almost ipcpd
andVery rihngly aromatic, with favor of Vanilla but
IN no wise with th del cous bitter and aromatic favor of
that OF tdolpho wolfe and others, such a. that labelled
"Genune Samaritan extra superiorii Messrs Trach
er have furnished me very small quantity creenst
substance of harsh metallic taste and very dsagreeable
which extractiyc organic matter was mixed with sal
Of cop er with signs Of iron, owing perhaps to a bar
system Of distiiation.
certify that all that il here stated ia the truth anC
agrees with the experiments have made with the creates
care, and authorize the house Of Gotg VI ill., OF thi
city, to give pebcity to this certificate in Spanish an,
in foreign Languages in all countries where ii NAV sui
| suit their interest to do so.
JOSE LUIS CASASECA
HAVANA J. AIRY. 1870.