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and bad tasted. The wine made in the West ladies 

 With F. glomerata and F- maritima, is red, harsh acid* 



North American Wines. Are made from Canada to 

 Mexico, chiefly from native grapes. In the United 

 States, 17 species can make good wine, either alone or 

 with a little sugar. The principal wines already made 

 are, I. Tlncefines^ pale red, light. 2. Vevay, reil, acid. 

 3. I'evayprime^ brown and sweetish, fine. S^Jilexandery 

 pale red, flavor of raspberries, and similar to best Bur- 

 gundy, made with F. prolifera. 4.B/and^ acid, strong, 

 yellow, made with V.hlanaa. S.Lufborough^ red, rich, 

 fine muskj flavor. 6. Catawha^ yellow, fine body and 

 perfume. 7- Scupemong^ yellow, limpid, very strong, 

 tiry when brandy is added. 8. Mtiscadine, yellow, sweet 

 perfumed. 9- vatskill^ strong, l>elv*^en Madeira and 

 Port in taste and color. iO. Cooper^^ brown, similar to 

 Lisbon, but acidule. \l, Elsinbiirg^ fine flavor. 12, Or- 

 ivisburg^ very fine, white. 13, habella^ pale and fine. 

 14. l1^orthingto7h sixnWvLV to Fort. 15, Tfmter wine^ dark 

 red, acid and harsh. 16.IVA:, red- harsh. 17. Harmony^ 

 Ted, acid, good. 18. v^Zato/ia, brown, fine, Jkc. The Eu- 

 ropean vines thrive in our gardens, and produce good 

 eatable grapes with some care ; but are <)ften injured in 

 the fields by late frosts, and do uot ripen well, or give 

 a thin acid juice unsuitable for good wine : we must, 

 therefore, rely on our native hardy grapes, some of w hich 

 are equal to the best exotic. 



The Mexican wines made Iruiu Spanish vines, produce 

 wines similar to Spanish, but little known as ye^ 



Good wines have wonderful effects on the human sys- 

 tem, ExternaUy they are useful ia frictions and lotions, 

 in caaea of local debility ; they may restore to life new 

 bora and very weak cinidren, likely to die, by merely 



rubbing it on their stomach. 



Internally they are gomi for suckling infant.*», trou- 

 bled With worms, or with weak bowels, a teaspoon full 

 i^-^ufticient for them with mdk or sugar. A popular 

 vermifuy;e for c!uldren in haly, i^ a mixture oi* %vinp, 

 lime juice, olive oil, and su^ar. Ciuidren, youths, and 

 females ou*;ht to abstain from ti e daily u^^e of it, and 

 then it wilfbe a cordial for them in almost all the dis- 

 eases. The use of wine as a beverage ought to begin 



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