22 On the CuUlvatio7i.of the Vine, 



liiabic truths, and among tbcfc \vc may venture to claf's the 

 foliowinsr: 



Th6 c'Arlicft authors not bnly ^^tteft that'-tncy were ac- 

 quainted with the art of making wine, but that they llacl 

 fonie vefy corrct^^ ideas in regard to its different tjualities and 

 virtues, and the vafi'piYs Wc(y^ of preparing if. " The heathen 

 deities, we arc told; 'delighted fh'lie$:ar and MVibrofia. 



Diofcorides fpeaks of the' Cacuhum" dulcet the Surrentinnih 

 nujhnim^ 8cc.; and Phnydefcrib^efe two kinds' of Alban^x-ine, 

 the one mild, and the other fliairp and tairt. ' The eelebfated 

 Faleruian wine, aceprdiiig to Athenceus, was alfo of two 

 kinds. The antients were even acquainted with "briflcwiries, 

 as" appears by the following pairage of Virgil:' 



• llle impigcr haufit 



Spumantem pateram 



\Vheti we read what hiftorian^ liave Idft us.refpe6lingtbe 

 origin of the wines poilcfled by the aritient Komari^^'it feeiiis 

 doubtful whether their fuccciTors have added any thing to 

 their knowledge on that fubjecli They procured their beft 

 wines frotirGampania, called at preTent Terra diljavori, in 

 the kingdom of Naples. The Falcrnian and' Maffic wine 

 were 'the produce of vine5'ards planted- on the- hills around 

 Mondragony at- the foot of whichrung th<i<3arigliano, for- 

 merly called the Iris. The wines of Atii-icla and Fondi were 

 made in the neighbourhood of Gaeta, the grapes of Suclla 

 grew he&r the fea, &c. But nbtwithflahding the great variety 

 of wine'ptoduced by the foil of Italy, luxury foon induced 

 the 'Rohians to feek for that of Afia, and their tables were 

 loaded with the valuable wines of Chio^.Lefbos, Ephefiis, 

 Cos, and Clazomcne. 



The earlieft hiflorians who have furniflied us with any 

 pofitive facts refpe6ting the making of vvines, leave us no 

 reafon to doubt that the Greeks had made confiderablc pro- 

 grefs in the art of preparing and pi^eferving them. They 

 diftingiiiflred' tymirito'^tv^^d kinds, />ro/o/>o« and deutcrion, 

 according 'a.4 they wef-e produced from the juice which flowed 

 from- the grapes before tlicy were trod upon, or from the juice 

 cxprcffed by tr^ajling theip. The Romans aftcy'xyards denoted 

 ' ■■ I thefe 



