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104&#93; T0 4 ] ARK which continues for forty - eight hours. Various penalties are attached to the sale of arrack, without con- forming to the usual duties and regulations established by several aflbs of parliament, with which we shall not trouble our readers, hut refer them to the statutes made concerning this article. Genuine arrack is said to pos- sess balsamic, softening, and re- storative properties, and to be less liable to produce the usual iiicon- veniencies of other spirits. It is farther supposed lo contain a fine subtile oil, so minute as to incor- porate readily with water : hence it is generall)' preferred in those cases, where repeated debauches have abraded the internal sides of the vessels. Persons who are un- fortunately addicted to the use of ardent spirits, as wdl as .hose troubled with the gout or rheuma- tism, and who cannot comply with the rules of sobriety and temper- ance, may use arrack in preference to Hollands, or brand}'. On ac- count of its strong empyreumatic oil, however, it is difficult of di- gestion, soon turns rancid, causes numerous obstructions, and is con- sequentiy injurious to individuals of lax solids, and thick or sizy tluids. Happy, therefore, are those who can entirely banish spirituous liquors from their tables ; as, from their stimulating and pernicious qualities, they have destroyed in- calculable numbers of human be- iivgs — perhaps exceeding in die >:ue, all the victims that ever fdH under the combined sec-urges of war, hunger, and pestilence. ARRANGEMENT, a term which denotes a distribution of the various component parts of any v/hch, in a certain order, or pro- ARR portion ; and refers eidrer to sub- , stance, time, or place. In the first instance, we may say, that the diversity observable in various co- lours is owing to a peculiar arrange- ment of those parts which reflecf the light j in the second, that regu- larity and order in human transac- tions are the result of a methodi- cal distribution, or arrangement of time j and to explain the last, it may be said, that the different genera and species of plants and flowers are, by botanists, arranged under their respective classes, and in their proper places. A happy arrangement of ideas, words, and sentences, forms one of the principal beauties of a speech,, or dissertation. The reverse im- plies confusion, which is frequent- ly glossed over by a torrent of am- biguous and flowery expressions, so tiiat it requires no small degree of critical acumen, to distinguish the philosophical speaker from the verbose orator.- — See Argument. A" ROW. is a missive weapon of defence, used by archers. Its form is slender, pointed, and barbed. — • Arrow -makers were denominated Jletchers ; men of considerable im- portance in the state. Arrow-heads and quarrels were required to be well boohed orbras- ed, and hardened at the points with steel ; the finishing of which ap- pears to have been the business of the arrow-smith. A more partial-; hr account of bows and arrows will be found under the title of Akchery. ARROW-GRASS, is a plant of which there are three species ; but two only are natives of Britain, namely, the Trigloehinpalustre, or Marsh, and the maritimum, or Sea Arrow-grass. The former is fre- quently met with in. marshy ground s^