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identical. Some, however, consider tl^at there is a slight difference between 

 them. Another vine named the Almunecar is grown in some parts of the 

 district. Although not a Muscat it produces fine raisins of large size. 

 It is not grown on a large scale, and the Muscatel is practically the only 

 raisin grape grown. Currants and sultanas are unknown. According to 

 the official statistics for 1906, the province of Malaga possessed 57,525 

 acres under vines, which produced 31,460 tons of grapes, of which 10 per 

 cent, only were made into wine. Allowing an equal quantity sold in the 

 fresh state, we have 24,000 tons of drying grapes, which would yield 8,000 

 tons of raisins; 1906 was a very bad se^ison, and in an ordinary year 

 the production would be considerably higher. Malaga raisins are almost 

 exclusively undipped, dessert raisins. In seasons when there is over pro- 

 duction a few dipped or pudding raisins are made, but this is exceptional. 

 Details as to drying and packing must be heid over for the present, as also 

 those concerning wine making. 



PACK MULES LADEN WITH GRAPES. 



Although the production of wine does not amount to anything like what 

 i: was before phylloxera, the Malaga wine industry is remarkable for the 

 number of distinct types turned out. These vary from a rather full bodied 

 dry white to an exceedingly sweet fortified w^ine. Brown Malagas, which 

 owe their color to the addition of highly concentrated boiled grape juice 

 known as arrope, are chiefly shipped to France. These wines are some- 

 times as dark as porter or stout and distinctly bitter. They constitute 

 a type of wine little known in Australia, which in nlden times was very 

 largely made in Andalucia. 



In Malaga scarcely any but white grapes are grown for wane. Such 

 sorts as Lairen, Listan or Palomino and Jaeen Doradillo are occasionally 

 met with, but the Pedro Jimenez is far more extensively grown. It is the 

 principal Malaga wine grape. I was much struck by the difference between 

 the true Pedro of Malaga and Jerez and the vine we know under the name 



