| England. | Scotland. | Ireland. |
|---|---|---|
| Galls. | Galls. | Galls. |
| 12,636,060 | 9,463,012 | 7,521,998 |
or in all, 29,621,070 gallons, yielding a revenue of £14,810,522.
It would be invidious to particularize any of the large Scotch distilleries, which mostly owe their fame to the excellence of their malt and the extreme purity of their water, together with the fact that peat is extensively used as fuel, even to the drying of the malt; but “Glenlivet” has a name as world-wide as “Ferrintosh.” Do we not read in the Bon Gaultier Ballads that—
“Fhairhson had a son
Who married Noah’s daughter,
And nearly spoiled ta flood,
By trinking up ta water;
Which he would have done,
I at least pelieve it,