It is a republic, governed by a council of 200, and a senate of twenty-five members; and is said to contain 30,000 inhabitants.

or Gin, among distillers, an ordinary malt spirit, distilled a second time, with the addition of some juniper-berries.

Originally, the berries were added to the malt in the grinding; so that the spirit thus obtained was flavoured with the berries from first, and exceeded all that could be made by any other method. At present, they leave out the berries entirely, and give their spirits a flavour by distilling them with a proper quantity of oil of turpentine; which, though it nearly resembles the flavour of juniper-berries, has none of their valuable virtues.