in a mortar, and put them into the still, with ten gallons and an half of proof spirits, and two gallons of water: draw off with a gentle fire till the faints begin to rise, and sweeten with fine sugar. It is good in cholics, nauseas of the stomach and gripings of the bowels.
To make a Gallon of Divine Water.
Take of orange flowers fresh gathered, two pounds; coriander seed, three ounces; nutmegs, half an ounce: bruise the nutmegs and coriander seed, and put them together with the orange flowers, into an alembic, with a gallon of proof spirit, and two quarts of water: draw off the liquor with a gentle fire, till the faints begin to rise, and sweeten with fine sugar.
To make a Gallon of rectified Barbadoes Water.
Take the outer rind of eight large florentine citrons; half an ounce of cinnamon bruised; and a gallon of rectified spirit: distil to a dryness in Balneum Mariæ: then dissolve two pounds of sugar in a quart of water, and mix it with the distilled liquor, and run it through the filtrating bag, which will render it bright and fine.
To make a Gallon of amber-coloured Barbadoes Water.
Take the yellow rind of six bergamots, half an ounce of cinnamon, and two drachms of cloves; bruise the spices, and digest the whole six days in a gallon of rectified spirit; and then add a drachm of saffron, and let the whole stand six
