Melioration of Aromatic Spirits by FROST. Mr Beaume observes, that aromatic spirituous waters have less scent when newly distilled than after they have been kept about six months; and he found that the good effect of age was produced in a short time by means of cold; and that, by plunging quart bottles of the liquor into a mixture of pounded ice and sea salt, the spirit, after having suffered for six or eight hours the cold hence resulting, proves as grateful as that which hath been kept many years. Simple waters also, after having been frozen, prove far more agreeable than they were before. Geoffroy takes notice of this melioration by frost. Hist. Acad. 1713.