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Oporto or port-wine, and then Sherry, Lisbon, Ten- 

 eriffa, Fayal, and Madeira. Of the last named there 

 was a distinction made between the so-called ' New- 

 york and London quality,' according as the taste was 

 more suited to the one or the other of those cities. 

 Madeira-wine was more prized if it had passed the 

 ocean once or several times, especially if it came by 

 way of the West Indies for it betters by a voyage in 

 warm regions. Formerly French wines came rarely to 

 America, but because of that, so much the oftener 

 now. The considerable sums which were drawn from 

 America for wine, induced the English government re- 

 peatedly to set premiums on the raising of domestic 

 wines. Following .these encouragements, attempts at 

 wine-culture were made in several provinces, and a 

 little wine produced for test here and there ; the pur- 

 poses of the government were not fulfilled; beyond 

 these few trials, nothing was done, because the work 

 was not found profitable, seemed not to promise 

 greatly, and, as it appears, was not in any way to the 

 taste of the Americans. 



A Mr. Andel, + near Brunswick in Jersey, before 

 the war received a premium of ioo Pd. Sterl. for a pipe 

 of red wine produced on his land. He died soon after- 

 wards, and negligent heirs let the vineyard fall into 

 decay, because it demanded too much work. In South 

 Carolina, almost 40 years ago, there was offered by 

 Provincial Act a reward of 60 Pd. to any one exhibit- 

 ing a pipe of good, drinkable wine made in the coun- 

 try. A Frenchman settled near Orangebourg, en- 

 couraged by this, made a few tuns of very good wine, 

 and for several years together received his premium. 

 But so soon as the premiums were discontinued, he 



