Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1859-08-13

d. JosH Luis CAsAsEcA, CoRREsPoNDiSG MEMBER OF
ROYAL Academies OF MADRID AND MUNICH, GBADUArE
SCIENCES FACULTY OF PARIS FORMERLY PROFESS
soR Of CHEMISTRY, APPLIED ARTS, rHr ROYAL
CossERvAroRo OF MADRID, AND OF PHYsc AND cHRMIsTRY
COUNTRY, IN THE ROYAL UNIVERSITY OF THIS ISLAND,
PRESENT H. Ms DRecroR OF THE INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL
INVESTIGATION, &C.. &C.,
hereby certify that at the request OF the house Gog
WILL Of this place, have made anaitica examination
U. wof's Aromatic schiedam schnapps, with the object
Of ascertainng il contained any substance noxious
health, and inform them to its composition and rea
quality with the other gins that offered in the
ke the my observations experiments are
follows
Udolpho wole's Aromatic schedam scnapps is a spirit
liquid, Of agreeable aromatic odor, completely
transparent and almost coloress having only very slight
tint of yeowsh gray its flavor strong very agreeable
to the palate. 1t marks 20 degrees in Carriers alcohol
weigher 81 degrees hundredh in Gay Lussacs aco-
metre By the dstlaon in a balaium maria, with APP
paratus consisting VI glass reort and recipient surround
ed with ice have collected In this recipient alcoholic liquid
with very agreeable completely coorless and
parent which marked 90 degrees in Cares alcoholic weigh
or, 20 degrees hundredth Gay Lussacs acometre
and which represented as whole 81 per cent Of Aromatic
Scheam Schnapps subject distatOn in the This
liquid dill soil the transparency Of the distilled in
mixing with the and its agreeable doubtless
due to very rhng amount Of an essential oil nseparable
from alcohol.
From the remainder Of the dslaton which left in the
retor have obtained through evaporation In vapOr BATH
substance of yeiowish brown color clear and having
bitter which disagreeabe, 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 eNtactve substance soluble
In and ALCOHOL the medicinal properties which at
trbued to this gin due have not found in Udolpho
woe Aromatic Schedam Schnapps any mineral organ
other than the eXracye already named and
the aromatic obtained by distilaton. Bnaly Udopho
woes Aromatic schiedam schnapps consists simply Of
alcohol Of 20 degrees Of graduation In Carriers aco
hoc weger and OF extractve bitter aromatic substance
which perhaps medcinali and its
tanning any injurious to the health well for its
and good avora fact which doubt arises from the
choice employed its manufacture and from the
peculiar Of its dslaon, should in my opinion,
be preferred all the Hoadn Bgc and German gins which
are In this Island which has been business
anime gins have often proved It, exhale disa-
greeabe odor aud have less disageeable flavor,
Of them having left the with the superior
gin the distery Of Mr. Henry Deejen (of Bemen),
resdum after evaporation by steam, substance almost in
cpid and very trngy aromatic, with flavor Of vanilla but
In no with delicious bitter and aromatic fla Of that
OF Udopho woe aud others such that labelled "Genuine
Samaritan" extra SUPERIOR Mesrs TEACHER have furnish.
cd me very small quantity OF greensh substance harsh
metallic and very disagreeabe which extractve
matter mixed with salt Of "copper" with sgns iron,
owing perhaps, to a bad system Of distillatlon.
certify that all that Is here stated the agrees
with the experiments have made with the greatest and
authorize the house Of Gog WILL OF this city, to give
publicity to this certificate, in Spanish and In foreign Lam
guage in all countries where II may snt their interest 20 do
so. JOSE LUIS CAsAsECA.
HAVANA, JANUARY, 1859.