The costume of China : illustrated by sixty engravings : with explanations in English and French (1800)
Mason, George Henry, author, Miller, William, 1769-1844, bookseller, Gosnell, Samuel, printer, Mason, George Henry. Costume of China, Mason, George Henry. Costume of China. French, Dadley, J., engraver, Pu-Qúa, illustrator · leaf 111
PLATE XXIV. A DISTILLER. T he liquor drunk by the higher classes of people in China is a sort of wineextracted from rice, which is steeped for some days in water, together withother ingredients; they afterwards boil it, and during the fermentation itthrows up a vaporous scum. A pure liquor, in…
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